In history, few replies have ever carried as much weight, defiance, and wit as a single word once uttered by the Spartans: ...

Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western civilization.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Greece discovered what may be a Spartan palace from the ancient Mycenaean civilization. Tablets written in Linear B script, the earliest known written language of the Greek people, ...

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 ...

LANSING – If not for the influence of a Greek immigrant family in Lansing, Michigan State University fans might be stuck with a clunker of a nickname: The Staters. Imagine trying to fire up about a ...

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 ...

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 ...