Were you taught about the Spartans in school history? Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of ...

Leaving neither monuments nor epics, Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece.

Add to that the SR-18 Roadblock heavy armor, consisting of a Spartan-style crested helmet and beefy pauldrons, and you can kit yourself out like a tanky, hellenic super-soldier of the future.

In reality Isagoras ruled as the head of an oligarchy of three hundred noblemen, who in turn relied upon the military backing of Sparta. Under instructions from the Spartan king, Cleomenes ...

The hopeless but ultimately inspiring defense of their country by a band of 300 Spartan soldiers against an immense army of Persian invaders in 480 B.C. – known to history as the Battle of ...

Their biggest enemy were the Persians, who came from an area around modern day Iran ... was the phalanx that won many famous battles. Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn ...

Their biggest enemy were the Persians, who came from an area around modern day Iran ... was the phalanx that won many famous battles. Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn ...