Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

Queen Gorgo of Sparta, known for her intelligence and strength, shaped Spartan history through key actions and her ...

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 toughen ...

Philopoemen was the most skilled general of the Achaean League. He defeated Sparta and propelled the league to prominence in ...