Sparta and Athens. Names recognizable across the globe. They were once the powerhouses of Ancient Greece, and it was the ...

The division of the population into distinct social classes varied across different city-states, kingdoms and polities in ancient Greece.

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 ...

In history, few replies have ever carried as much weight, defiance, and wit as a single word once uttered by the Spartans: ...