Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.

On Sparta’s Second Attic War, by Paul A. Rahe. Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent ...

Sparta coach Catherine Wille started to get emotional as she began to talk about her team and the journey they have taken over the last several years. An essential group of players, which include star ...

What strikes one first about 300, a Zack Snyder 2006 American film, is that it is a big display of machismo. All of the characters in the entourage of Leonidas, the Spartan king, are chiselled, ...

In the second episode of the current season of the TV show Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a castle — then watch it be destroyed by a bowling ball. In the lucky dip that followed, ...