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 was ...

Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

War was a prominent event in ancient Greece, whether between city states or against foreign powers. However, laws controlled ...

hi my name is z kandik I'm an ancient historian at Lincoln College Oxford I specialize in Greek Warfare and Sparta I'm here today with history hit to take a deep dive into the movie 300 came out in ...

As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...

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 ...

Pretty much everyone alive today knows the caricature of the Ancient Spartan warrior. Decked out in a round shield with a Λ on its face, a red cloak, and a crested helmet, the classic Spartan hoplite ...