Sparta had a highly unusual system of government ... leaving them free to pursue to the arts of war. Beneath this highest class was a middle class, called the Perioeci. Made up of a farmers ...

The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus ...

More atrocities followed when the assembly voted to chop off the right hands of all prisoners of war in an attempt to prevent them fighting again. Sparta suggested peace, once again Athens refused.

Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War ... In the end, the Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC. In battle, hoplites fought ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War ... In the end, the Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC. In battle, hoplites fought ...