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 ...

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 ...

War has been a constant throughout human history, yet most of the classic stories we read focus on men. That’s perhaps why 2017’s Wonder Woman was such a smash hit — audiences clearly crave greater ...

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

The Spartan Exception That Proves the Rule The idea of a Spartan with PTSD might stretch the imagination, particularly since the simple act of reaching adulthood in the ancient world was - in some ...

The Amazons, a mythical race of female warriors that inspired fictional heroes such as Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess, may have been more than ancient Greek lore. The Institute of ...