Harris thinks differences in historic Louisiana cultures might be at play regarding names on the Louisiana state map ... Sparta was a prominent city-state and dominant military power in ancient ...

There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves ...

The statue was found at Sparta’s sanctuary of Athena Chalkioikos, a temple of special significance to Spartan soldiers. Alamy/ACI In the same vein, various ancient philosophers and orators ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to ...