Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was ...
After Rome conquered Ancient Greece, it turned Sparta into a theme park, with performances for tourists showcasing its ...
Back in the Brexit years, the European Research Group of hard-line Conservative MPs christened themselves the “Spartans”. Perhaps they were drawn to the image of an elite warrior brotherhood, standing ...
Many people associate Spartans with dramatic stories and larger-than-life portrayals, but much of that image is shaped by modern media. In reality, Sparta was a complex society built on strict ...
A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.