A hundred years after the Persian Wars, the Thebans grew enraged at the Spartans using their military might to force other ...

Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning ... of Plataea in 479 B.C., which effectively ended all Persian attempts to invade the Greek lands. At other times, Sparta ...

The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive ... forge an alliance with Athens against Sparta. When his terms were rudely rejected ...

Before battling the mighty Persians, Alexander the Great paid homage at the tomb of the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan ...

The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece ... hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Fighting wars was what the Spartans did best. They believed that strict discipline and a tough ...

However, as soon as they heard of the march of the largest Greek army since the Trojan War, the Athenian fleet ... Once, Samos had served as a base for the Persian fleet after Salamis, but they ...

Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspiring soldiers with rousing verse in the seventh century BCE to inscriptions ...

When the Persian army landed at Marathon ... religious festival that forbade mobilization for war during its celebrations. When at last the Spartans set off for Athens several days later, the ...

A Halo Infinite player online gets creative to transform their multiplayer Spartan into an enemy type found in the Borderlands series. The Banished are a mercenary group that broke away from the ...

Falklands' veterans from HMS Spartan gather at Sunderland's War Memorial to honor their fallen colleagues Some thirty former crew members of Swift-sure Class nuclear submarine HMS Spartan gathered ...

The Michigan State Spartans (4-3) are searching to reinvigorate their identity as a top team in the Big Ten and a national contender. That process will hang in the balance this Saturday night as ...

The Michigan State Spartans (3-3) had an extra week during the bye week to prep for its next opponent this Saturday at Spartan Stadium for Homecoming. The Spartans will battle the Iowa Hawkeyes (4 ...