Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for ... the gangplank at Pylos had earned him a face full of javelins. He had been lucky ...

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 ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... many reasons for launching a military campaign. For example, Sparta might face an existential threat, prompting its participation in the Battle ...