Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

Nabis, the last king of Sparta, is often described as both a king and a tyrant, depending on the perspective and sources.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... chose the 300 best hoplites in Sparta to become the hippeis—elite soldiers who formed the king’s private guard. Known as a hoplon—from ...

They were known as the Minoans after their legendary king ... one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Instead, Greece was divided up into small city-states, like Athens, Sparta, Corinth and ...