Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was ...

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 ...

Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is not just a myth.

Many people associate Spartans with dramatic stories and larger-than-life portrayals, but much of that image is shaped by modern media. In reality, Sparta was a complex society built on strict ...