The ancient sources tell us that before this, no Spartan woman had ever so much as seen the campfires of the enemy, since no army had been able to come near Sparta itself.

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

The rivalry between ancient Athens and Sparta is infamous—but they may have been more 'frenemies' Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the ...

Aimed at audiences 13 and older, the YA film is a sci-fi coming-of-age story Penelope, the heroine from Homer’s The Odyssey. Set in a world inspired by ancient Greece, it will follow the ...

Farce has roots in ancient Roman theatre, but it became more defined as a genre during the Renaissance and later in the 17th and 18th centuries. Playwrights like Molière popularized farce in ...