Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern ...

Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

The city of Sparta differed from Athens, having little monumental architecture and no single center. ... Euripides’s tragedies are similarly unsympathetic toward the rival city-state.