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 ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government. Two kings ruled the city, but a 28-member 'council of elders' limited their powers. These men were recruited from the highest social class, the ...

The Spartan-Persian peace, known as the peace of Antalcidas , marked Greek divisions, and symbolized Persian dominance in ...

Beginning in the 14th century, when Greece was wracked by political and social struggles, monks began building a series of ...