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 ...

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 ...

An ancient Greek palace filled with cultic objects and clay tablets written in a lost script may be the long-lost palace of Mycenaean Sparta ... A second structure on the site preserved fragments ...

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 ...

Laconic Greek, the dialect once spoken by the ancient Spartans, is one of the most fascinating examples of linguistic ...

(Betrayal crushed Sparta's last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae.) In addition to being renowned for its warrior mentality, Sparta was unique in its social and political organization. The ...