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

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

The division of the population into distinct social classes varied across different city-states, kingdoms and polities in ancient Greece.

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C. Undaunted“By this time ...

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 ...