This sword belongs to Ancient Greek or spartan Armoury. These types of swords were built to hold them in one hand and the classic blade was generally about 50–60 cm long, although the Spartans ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece ... a short iron sword. Despite the uniformity in hoplite ...

This revolutionary style would prove central to many poetic traditions, from ancient Rome to medieval France to Renaissance England and into the present. Meanwhile, Spartans were surprisingly ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

The ancient Greeks at war Learn about ancient Greek soldiers, the Spartan soldier state and read about famous Greek battles. What do we know about ancient Greek culture? Find out what ancient ...