At a time of internal social upheaval, Sparta looked westward across the Mediterranean and founded the colony of Taras.

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 ...

Spartan warriors stand along the shores of Greece, taunting the Athenian troops aboard their naval ships. Athens controls the ...

Legendary for their ferocious combat skills, the Spartans built a warrior culture in ancient Greece unsurpassed for its courage and military prowess. Eminent historian Cartledge (Spartan Reflections) ...

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 ...

In the summer of 480 BC, a sacred and narrow corridor of land became the stage for one of antiquity's most defining confrontations, as a handful of defiant Greek city-states faced the vast might of ...

The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404 BCE, is one of the most defining conflicts in the history of the ancient ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Those who study Greek mythology may have noticed similarities between towns like Homer, Castor, Alexandria, Athens, Eros, Sparta, Urania, and Arcadia, Louisiana, and the ...