King Leonidas of Sparta, left with only a few fighters from the original 300 at Thermopylae, gave a speech with great ...

Epaminondas was a general and statesman who beat the Spartans and for a short period made Thebes the greatest power in Greece ...

The Spartans died to the last man, and Leonidas’ body was mutilated by the Persians. In all, the battle occupies only six pages or so in the English translation of Herodotus’ Histories.

The Spartans, martial in every facet of their lives, seemed strange even to other Greeks, and the Persians may have looked supernaturally powerful. There's bravery in that, too.

The Peloponnesian War, fought between Athens and Sparta, is one of history's most iconic conflicts. Athens, with its powerful ...

As King Leonidas and the 300 Spartans battled the Persian forces, King Xerxes sent wave after wave of elite troops from across Persia's empire at them. In Zack Snyder's film, they included war ...

Although the movie tells the tale of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which Spartan leader Leonidas and his band of 300 soldiers fought to the death against Persian king Xerxes, many see ...