In one of the greatest, yet now forgotten, small-unit engagements in American history, several hundred Marylanders made an epic stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.

Elon Musk is known to have a complicated private life – and it looks like his family tree has yet another branch with the announcement of the birth of his ’14th’ child. Earlier this year, conservative ...

Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth ...

But 300 didn't just spring to life on the big-screen. For its origins as a cinematic adventure which looks and sounds the way ...

It was the year 467 BC when an enraged woman approached the door of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos in Sparta and placed a ...

The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...