A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...

Sparta had even fewer citizens, but was in many ways an exceptional case. Its powerful military elite ruled over nearly four thousand square miles, almost all of the Peloponnesian peninsula.

The wellness destination Euphoria Retreat provides services to heal the body and mind in the ancient fortress town of medieval Mystras.

Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for ... in southwest Greece. These heroics might have put him on track for mythic fame ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest ... traditions, from ancient Rome to medieval France ...

The assembly responded by declaring war on Sparta. Pericles insisted that ... Although probably the greatest runner of ancient Greece, it was not Phidippides who ran what we call a marathon.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.