Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to toughen ...

Few foreigners realize that Sparta still exists. The ancient city-state, which walked the line between legend and history, is often assumed to have fallen off the map at some point in antiquity. In ...

On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of Sparta, Archidamus, was summoned to address a clash between the Corinthians and Athenians. Corinth, an ally of Sparta, warned that ...

Pretty much everyone alive today knows the caricature of the Ancient Spartan warrior. Decked out in a round shield with a Λ on its face, a red cloak, and a crested helmet, the classic Spartan hoplite ...

As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...