Twenty-five hundred years ago the Spartans were the indisputable military power in Greece. No city had warriors as fierce and ...

The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

In actuality, it was layered, complicated, and steeped in Spartan laws and traditions. When the call to war came, Sparta was right in the middle of celebrating the Carneia festival.

In the battle, the Persian Army crushed more than 7,000 Greeks—including 300 Spartans, who are widely and falsely believed to have been the only Greeks fighting in that battle—and went on to ...

This sixth-century B.C. Lacedaemonian vase shows two Spartan soldiers bearing hoplite panoply. Both sport the long hair characteristic of the Spartiates (full citizens of Sparta).