While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

He also outlined that while women weren’t part of the military, Spartan females actually had more rights than most others in the ancient world — including access to education and owning ...

Spartan boys were taken from their families at age 7—not to play, but to be forged into warriors. This is the story of the agoge, Sparta’s unforgiving system of military training.

A New York school district is facing a lawsuit from a former teacher and parent who says its new Spartans logo is a symbol of hate and White supremacy.

Moss, who has two daughters, said he was also angered that ancient Spartans didn't allow women in their military during their reign, some 2,500 years ago. It would be another 2,400 years before ...

For decades, a scattering of ruins in southeastern Europe was dismissed as little more than an unremarkable military outpost, ...

In the ancient city-state of Sparta ... In the 5th century BCE, Greek historian Herodotus wrote about how syssitia evolved from a Spartan military practice to having deep political meaning in society.

"In essence, what China now declares is that it is prepared to fight to the end: trade war, tariff war, technology war, or real war," Victor Gao of the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing ...

The communal nature of foraging and hunting, and later farming, meant humans almost always ate their meals in the company of others. In the ancient city-state of Sparta, in the fourth century BCE, ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?