Ancient palace discovery challenges the myth behind Sparta's rise to power

New historical research challenges Sparta's founding myth, suggesting the ancient warrior state did not start out through conquest, as experts have long believed.
Greek Reporter

Ancient Greek Military Strategies Still Used Today

Ancient Greek military thinking and strategy presents useful lessons for modern military theorists and practitioners.
Greek Reporter

Would Ancient Greek Philosophers Consider Today’s Governments True Democracies?

Whether our Western political systems are true democracies or republics can be answered by examining ancient Greek philosophy ...
Slate

The Fearful Secret at the Heart of Ancient Sparta

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 ...
The Atlantic

My Sixty Days in Greece: A Spartan School

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 ...
Publishers Weekly

The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta and the Struggle for Greece

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...