Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace with important archaic inscriptions dating back to the Mycenaean Age, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The palace, likely ...

Tarentum was settled from Sparta ; and as Lower Italy was the America of ancient Greece, and the Greeks spoke of Great Greece as we speak of Greater Britain, my Spartan friend might pass for the ...

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 ...

Located in a verdant, fertile valley, the famed ancient city-state of Sparta rose to prominence through the promotion of martial skills and the resultant prowess of its army. By the early part of the ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest strengths was its citizens’ “contempt of pleasure.” Nonsense.

The daily life in Ancient Greece revolved around work, family, education, and religion, shaping a civilization that still influences world.