KS2 History Ancient Greece. A short animation exploring everyday life in Ancient Greece, including geographical location, ...

Athens and Sparta signed a peace pact in 1996, nearly 2,400 years after the Peloponnesian War ended with Athens' surrender in 404 BC.

Sparta’s entire culture centered on war. A lifelong dedication to military discipline, service, and precision gave this ...

The Spartans weren’t a race of supermen as their 20th century totalitarian admirers imagined. They were cowardly, duplicitous, prone to bribe-taking and happy to betray friends and allies. In that ...

What if Sparta attacked everyone? This hypothetical scenario imagines the ancient Greek city state abandoning its existing ...

New historical research suggests that one of the most legendary cities in history did not start out as a conquering warrior state — poking a hole in its founding myth. The study, which centered around ...