Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government ... Rather like medieval knights, the Spartiates were a class of military professionals who lived most of their lives in communal barracks.

Sparta's Second Attic War, a volume in the “Yale Library of Military History”, is also a very good read for anyone interested in the idea of grand strategy. Note: Sparta's Second Attic War is also ...

These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404BC. Only the threat of invasion by a foreign enemy made ...