Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning of the fifth century B.C.— especially their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may ...

Spartan general Pausanias lived a life which encapsulated the Ancient Greek city state, killed by his own people for ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war ... Their biggest enemy were the Persians, who came from an area around modern day Iran. The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war ... Their biggest enemy were the Persians, who came from an area around modern day Iran. The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks ...

(Our word ‘laconic’ comes from the Greek region of Laconia) Both films dramatize the events of 480BC, when a tiny number of Spartan warriors genuinely did fight heroically against a Persian army of ...