Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed ...

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.

The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus ...

Inward-looking and self-sufficient, the Spartans were the most feared hoplites (infantrymen) in all Greece. They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury, in a city that contained ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government. Two kings ruled the city, but a 28-member 'council of elders' limited their powers. These men were recruited from the highest social class, the ...

The Thucydides' Trap examines the risk of conflict when a rising power challenges an established one, from ancient Greece to ...

BCE, two great figures of ancient military history passed away. One was the Roman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus; the ...

The Greek myth that ancient Spartans threw their stunted and sickly newborns off a cliff was not corroborated by archaeological digs in the area, researchers said Monday. The Greek myth that ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

At the height of its prestige, Athens was the dominant maritime power in the Aegean, enjoying hegemony at sea.