The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

Leonidas, the legendary King of Sparta, is mostly known for leading the 300 heroic Spartans and dying with them in the Battle ...

Fierce? 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 ...

Are you fascinated by the legends of ancient Greece and the incredible warriors who once roamed the land? If so, then Sparta: Rise Of The Warrior City-State is the perfect book bundle for you! This ...

Those wondering about the history of Sparta Township now have a new resource. The Sparta Township Historical Commission recently published a new book called "Images of American Sparta Township" which ...

Sparta football fans who may have thought that this year’s Spartan football team was the best in school history may want to pick up the recently published book “History of Sparta Football” written by ...

SPARTA -- The Sparta Train Station, once the bustling hub that brought vacationers, supplies and mail to Sparta in the late 1800s, is now gone, leaving many train and history enthusiasts saddened by ...

The Athletic is attending some of the most ferocious derbies across Europe, charting the history of the continent’s most deep-rooted and volatile rivalries. The series began last season, covering 10 ...

In recent years, Hollywood has been popularizing some of the most important battles of ancient Greece: Brad Pitt was the Greeks' champion against the Trojans in 2004's Troy, and Gerard Butler ...

What strikes one first about 300, a Zack Snyder 2006 American film, is that it is a big display of machismo. All of the characters in the entourage of Leonidas, the Spartan king, are chiselled, ...