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

Beginning in the 14th century, when Greece was wracked by political and social struggles, monks began building a series of ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

The recent discovery of the ancient palace near Sparta might help archaeologists provide an insight into one of the most mysterious civilizations in Greek history. Greek Ministry of Culture A team of ...

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 ...

The city state of Sparta, in many respects, was different from Athens. Geographically it was situated in a mountainous area which isolated it from other cities. The state was founded in 10th century ...

There's a shortage of swords in Sparta. Greek merchants from Athens to Thermopylae are also concerned about a scarcity of spears as they prepare for summer visitors obsessed with 300, the gory story ...

Alexandra Glekas was a Spartan warrior in mind and heart, especially when it came to her kitchen. At St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral on Massachusetts Avenue, where she'd been a parishioner for 81 ...

It is a quirk of history and geography that Yokohama, rather than Tokyo, has long been the place to go if you're looking for Greek food. Yokohama is where the freighters docked and, inevitably, some ...