Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms ... were relatively small. Sparta had even fewer citizens, but ...

In Ancient Greece, Athens was known for its philosophers, scientists, and theorists of democracy. Sparta was known for its ...

Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of Greece ... democracy and civilisation from the ‘barbarous’ Persians coming from what is now modern-day Iran. In the West we have ...