The Peloponnesian War, which for almost three decades pitted Spartans against Athenians for supremacy in the Hellenic world, concluded in 404 B.C. with the victory of the Spartans. However, the true ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sparta: War of Empires Set in the 5th century BC, the ancient world of Greece is in turmoil, under threat from Xerxes and his giant Persian Empire. This is ...

This volume is the first of a three part series by Prof. Rahe (Hillsdale College) that explores the origins and evolution of Sparta’s political and military strategy. Rahe opens with opens with some ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Sparta: War of Empires launched today, bringing historic Spartan fighting to Facebook. The massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game from developer Plarium puts players in fifth century B.C ...

Thalassa! Thalassa!, the legendary cry of excitement uttered by Greek mercenaries when they saw the sea, which could put an end to their painful retreat by Persian land and return them safely to their ...

Dr John O. Hyland joins Paul and Beatrice to discuss fifth-century BC Persian ruler Xerxes I, whose royal progress took him to the Western boundaries of his empire. Read the transcript Xerxes I tried ...