Were you taught about the Spartans in school history? Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of ...

Originating mainly from conquered regions like Messenia, the Helots were essential to the Spartan economy, allowing the Spartan citizens to dedicate ...

Today's current affairs seem so mirrored in the past; the great events of long, long ago seem so similar to what’s happening today. Not events ...

Sparta, by contrast, had a smaller population, with about 8,000–10,000 full citizens (Spartiates) at its peak, supported by a much larger population of non-citizens, including helots (serfs) and ...

"Stop calling them "messengers": distinguishing character identity and function in Greek Tragedy" The term "messenger" is a familiar one in the discussion of Greek tragedy, but its imprecision has ...

Time and space shifting: author David Cairns on the difficulties of writing detailed historical fiction set in Scotland from ...

Sparta spent nearly three centuries as the preeminent military power in Ancient Greece. It rose to dominate the Peloponnese, Greece’s large southern peninsula, and led an alliance of city-states ...

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