The Battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 Spartan hoplites and their Greek allies fought over 100,000 Persians to defend mainland Greece, is arguably Sparta’s greatest claim to fame.

He doesn't think the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae planned to be "kamikazes. "I suspect that it was a blunder to which the Spartans reacted heroically." ...

In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain ...

The myth of Sparta that was born at Thermopylae has endured for millennia, hardier than a tardigrade, preying on the pervasive insecurity that we are too decadent and too comfortable, not tough or ...

Betrayal crushed Sparta's last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery ...

The fan-favorite historical war epic dramatizes one of Ancient Greek history's most famous doomed missions - the Battle of ...

Fierce? Yes. Tough? You bet. But the true history of the Greek civilization had a lot more nuance Myke Cole Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held ...

The contemporary poet Simonides of Ceos eulogized the Spartans who died at Thermopylae: “Go tell to Sparta, thou who passest by, that here, obedient to her laws, we lie.” ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

Leonidas, king of Sparta, met him with only 7,000 men at Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf.