The Parthenians, illegitimate children of Sparta's women born during war, became the founders of the esteemed Greek colony of ...

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 ...

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