This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...

The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed ...

Melanie Prapopoulos, founder and director of North Miami’s The CAMP Gallery, says she has been thinking about the ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government ... leaving them free to pursue to the arts of war. Beneath this highest class was a middle class, called the Perioeci. Made up of a farmers ...

Sparta Police identified Pait ... Pait served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, according to the GoFundMe. He was stationed on Sơn Trà Peninsula at the Monkey Mountain Facility ...

Ghosts of Sparta rejoice, for you can now think in peace without your smart-ass son reminding you how slow-witted you are.

Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a Ukraine war veteran to head one of Russia’s regions ... Artem Zhoga, a former ...

The age-old debate continues to rage on, but for our money, these five might stand the biggest chance against the God of War ...