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 ...

Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn't show up. They also grew their hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best.

Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn't show up. They also grew their hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best.

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 ...

This fear of the Helots kept Spartan soldiers at home, preventing the Spartans from using their peerless army abroad as often ...

To train up for their stint serving as the headquarters for Task Force Spartan, the Army's 10,000-Soldier force in the region, the Guard Soldiers will be going through a division "Warfighter ...

This deployment is in support of Operation Spartan Shield, which supports the U.S. Army’s Task Force Spartan efforts in Southwest Asia. The objective of the operation is to build up defense ...