Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece ... history, mothers have wept in seeing their sons set out for ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

Fighting between the Persian and Athenian armies in the ancient Greek city of Notion ... believe the coins were intended for: war. According to the Greek historian Xenophon, a single daric was ...

The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearly poses difficult questions—and has done so ever since the age of ...

The life of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641), his military triumphs, reforms, and the establishment of Greek as the ...

I'm a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Oxford ... But at this time, the time of the Persian War, so the Spartans had no rules against this, and, indeed, it's a true story.

Ancient records say that Alexander stationed Persian Greek mercenaries on a hill ... Graham Wrightson, a history professor at South Dakota State University, said that the team's finds are interesting.

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...