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

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

Cinadon’s conspiracy and attempted coup reveal deep social tensions in ancient Sparta and a swift, disciplined response to ...

The city of Sparta differed from Athens, having little monumental architecture and no single center. The remains of the Roman-era theater at the site of ancient Sparta are seen here, ...

Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was raised from infancy to fight to the death.

North of the city, we later ambled through ancient Sparta’s hillside Acropolis, treading in the sandal-clad footsteps of soldiers who fixated on bronze shields and swords and consumed pig blood ...