Sparta spent nearly three centuries as the preeminent military power in Ancient Greece. It rose to dominate the Peloponnese, Greece’s large southern peninsula, and led an alliance of city-states to ...

Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...

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 ...

The Spartans raised their children to be tough and stoic servants of the state. Boys were sent to train as soldiers from a ...

Barnsley, S. York.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 260. Illus., maps, appends., notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 1783030232 The Sparta ...