Recently, in the article we devoted to the Spartan king Agesilaus II, we explained the context in which he had to ascend the ...

Inward-looking and self-sufficient, the Spartans were the most feared hoplites (infantrymen) in all Greece. They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury, in a city that contained neither ...

At least 34 kings, emperors, tsars, sultans, and one 6-year-old Japanese ruler were killed in or very near fields of battle, dating back to six Spartan kings in Ancient Greece who fell in battle ...