Leaving neither monuments nor epics, Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece.

Add to that the SR-18 Roadblock heavy armor, consisting of a Spartan-style crested helmet and beefy pauldrons, and you can kit yourself out like a tanky, hellenic super-soldier of the future.

Were you taught about the Spartans in school history? Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of ...

In reality Isagoras ruled as the head of an oligarchy of three hundred noblemen, who in turn relied upon the military backing of Sparta. Under instructions from the Spartan king, Cleomenes ...

Their biggest enemy were the Persians, who came from an area around modern day Iran ... was the phalanx that won many famous battles. Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn ...

Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers prepare to depart for a yearlong deployment to the Middle East. They will serve with ...

Their biggest enemy were the Persians, who came from an area around modern day Iran ... was the phalanx that won many famous battles. Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn ...