In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet that was anchored off the nearby ...

Leaving neither monuments nor epics, Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece.

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

But 300 didn't just spring to life on the big-screen. For its origins as a cinematic adventure which looks and sounds the way it does, we have to go back, not necessarily all the way to Ancient Sparta ...

The Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria "Leonidas" held an Anzac ceremony at Sparta Place, Brunswick. Officials made speeches about the not so well known battle of Thermopylae ...

It was the year 467 BC when an enraged woman approached the door of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos in Sparta and placed a brick with an inscription that read: Unworthy of being a Spartan, you are ...

Sparta was the greatest land army in Ancient ... this line was actually spoken by numerous Spartan women as the men left for war at Thermopylae. Though it was the men who went off to fight on ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek ... men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas ...