"It is remarkable that Sparta had no walls when all the other cities did," Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday in response to a ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed ...

The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus ...