Spartan wearing a Corinthian helmet and wrapped in a cape. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Photograph by Bridgeman/AC Each soldier would carry 20 days worth of provisions ...

Discover the life and legacy of Lycurgus, Sparta's legendary lawgiver, whose reforms forged a society of equality and ...

Under instructions from the Spartan king, Cleomenes, the first task of the new government was to banish Cleisthenes' most powerful allies. Altogether over 700 households were brutally cast out of ...

Then news reached him of an advancing Spartan army, forcing him to take to the field. Both sides had amassed huge armies. Almost every city in Greece had sent a contingent to support the effort ...

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 ...

and recent expansions to the franchise's lore have introduced the fascinating concept of human Spartan super-soldiers joining the Banished's ranks. A Halo Infinite player online gets creative to ...