As the impressively built armies of Ancient Greece and Persia once again clash on screen, Scott Laidler explains how to get a physique like Themistocles or Xerxes Sullivan Stapleton as Athenian ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

Police in Beijing briefly detained at least two foreigners dressed as Spartan warriors who were taking part in a publicity stunt on the streets of the capital to promote a salad company. A photograph ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...