Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male ...

Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

It is widely believed that there were more poets in Sparta during the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. than in any other Greek city-state. Full citizens had ample time for entertainments because ...

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Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world ... were relatively small. Sparta had even fewer citizens, but was in many ways an exceptional case. Its powerful military elite ...

Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first recorded ...

The Archeological Museum of Sparta is located in the modern city of Sparta, which was established in 1834 and built over much of ancient Sparta. (Photo by Norma Meyer) Although the museum spans ...

The mythical conflict took place outside the walls of Troy, an ancient city on the coast of Asia Minor. But the seeds of war were sown far from there, in the city of Sparta on the Greek mainland.

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.

A New York father and NAACP leader is demanding his school district discontinue its new "Spartans" mascot, alleging the ...