Laconic Greek, the dialect once spoken by the ancient Spartans, is one of the most fascinating examples of linguistic ...

Unlike other Greeks, who only took up the spear when ... is a welcome corrective to the jingoism of 300. The case of ancient Sparta suggests that basing a society on the violent and humiliating ...

Whether our Western political systems are true democracies or republics can be answered by examining ancient Greek philosophy ...

Alamy/ACI In the same vein, various ancient philosophers and orators presented Sparta as a model of harmony and stability, in contrast to the constant uprisings experienced by other Greek cities.

A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.

The settlement was near Homer, Athens, Arcadia, Sparta, Antioch, where Pat Garrett was growing up, and several other communities with ancient Greek names. This castor oil was manufactured in 1937.

The Battle of Tegyra in 375 B.C. proved that the legendary Spartan army could be defeated. A thousand Spartan soldiers, trained for combat from the age of 7, were returning from an expedition when ...