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

Sony Published a game on PlayStation 2. This game would go on to inspire a plethora of sequels and establish the franchise as ...

Sparta is a city in Laconia, on the Peloponnese in Greece. In antiquity, it was a powerful city-state with a famous martial tradition. Ancient writers sometimes referred to it as Lacedaemon and ...

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 ...

The statue was found at Sparta’s sanctuary of Athena Chalkioikos, a temple of special significance to Spartan soldiers. Alamy/ACI In the same vein, various ancient philosophers and orators ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.

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 ...

Yes. Tough? You bet. But the true history of the Greek civilization had a lot more nuance Myke Cole Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for ...