A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

The Parthenians, illegitimate children of Sparta's women born during war, became the founders of the esteemed Greek colony of ...

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 ...

SPARTA, Mich. (WOOD) — Hundreds of people gathered at the newly renamed Lamoreaux Brothers Veterans Memorial Park in Sparta on Memorial Day to rededicate the town’s “Shorty’s Monument” honoring local ...