Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

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.

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

An 1888 illustration shows a bust of the ancient Greek historian and general Thucydides, known as “the father of scientific history.” Science Photo Library Herodotus tells us the two Spartan ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to toughen ...

It is widely believed that there were more poets in Sparta during the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. than in any other Greek city-state. Full citizens had ample time for entertainments because ...