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 ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for Greece and the world.

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 ...

A master project 30 years in the making is underway in La Crosse, with multiple developers leading a $300 million build out ...

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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.

The “Time of Heroes” program to promote veterans from the Ukraine war is part of the Kremlin’s effort to make military ...

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