Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning of the fifth century B.C.— especially their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may ...

Nabis, the last king of Sparta, is often described as both a king and a tyrant, depending on the perspective and sources.

More atrocities followed when the assembly voted to chop off the right hands of all prisoners of war in an attempt to prevent them fighting again. Sparta suggested peace, once again Athens refused.

Were you taught about the Spartans in school history? Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of ...

Falklands' veterans from HMS Spartan gather at Sunderland's War Memorial to honor their fallen colleagues Some thirty former crew members of Swift-sure Class nuclear submarine HMS Spartan gathered ...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza's most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the ...

When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, Hollywood didn't immediately ... seemed to come and go during this period was Go Tell the Spartans, which had the misfortune of coming out the same year that ...