With some Western governments restricting weapons transfers to Israel, the country must adopt a “super Sparta” mentality in the face of increasing isolation, summoning the famed self-reliance and ...

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 ...

Fierce? Yes. Tough? You bet. But the true history of the Greek civilization had a lot more nuance Myke Cole Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up ...

Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military prowess, as its soldiers were considered to be among the best in the ancient ...

Don't expect any grand, over-the-top treatment of Spartan history, as Sparta: Ancient Wars is a very generic real-time strategy game. Sparta: Ancient Wars had the fortune and misfortune to come in the ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Sparta: Ancient Wars has been in development for two years now, but very little of the game has been seen so far. WorldForge skipped an appearance at ...

ONE rainy June afternoon I found myself in Sparta. The modern Sparta is called a thriving town, and as a token of its thrift the good people were grading some of the principal streets, and it was hard ...

An ancient Greek palace filled with cultic objects and clay tablets written in a lost script may be the long-lost palace of Mycenaean Sparta, one of the most famous civilizations of ancient Greece.

The New Republic published an article by Myke Cole on Aug. 1 titled “The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer.” As you can tell from the title, Cole isn’t a big fan of the ancient Spartans or the modern ...

LANSING – If not for the influence of a Greek immigrant family in Lansing, Michigan State University fans might be stuck with a clunker of a nickname: The Staters. Imagine trying to fire up about a ...