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 ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

Greek historians like Herodotus are famous for writing down some of the first-ever Western historical records and waxing poetic about the skirmishes and wars waged throughout Ancient Greece. But just ...

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us ...

“Ancient Wars: Sparta” is one of many strategy games to take the battles of antiquity as its inspiration. Sadly, a worthy historical inspiration alone does not make a good game. “Sparta” falls short ...