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 Thermopylae in ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.

Few foreigners realize that Sparta still exists. The ancient city-state, which walked the line between legend and history, is often assumed to have fallen off the map at some point in antiquity. In ...

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 ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...