Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C. Undaunted“By this time ...

Leonidas, the legendary King of Sparta, is mostly known for leading the 300 heroic Spartans and dying with them in the Battle ...

What got Frank Miller obsessed with the story of the 300 in the first place was “The 300 Spartans,” a 1962 epic that, although it suffers from tin-man acting by Richard Egan (who keeps smiling ...

Frank Miller has retained a modicum of control over how his graphic novels (don’t call them “comic books”) are brought to the screen, whether by holding out for the best offer and participating in the ...

At the beginning of his new book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, Paul Rahe quotes a passage from John Stuart Mill—an 1846 passage in which Mill writes that Ancient Greek history is ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If King Leonidas had a grave, rather than just a glorious undying legend, he'd be spinning it. The most arse-kicking King of our most ...

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 ...

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 ...