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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An architectural dig on an ancient Greek battlefield, returned to in 1880, unearthed a surprising find: a mass grave of Theban soldiers carefully and deliberately buried in pairs. Make that couples.

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