The Ancient Greek world produced leaders, generals, and great men whose actions shaped the history of the Mediterranean world ...

At a time of internal social upheaval, Sparta looked westward across the Mediterranean and founded the colony of Taras.

Archaeologists in Greece discovered what may be a Spartan palace from the ancient Mycenaean civilization. Tablets written in Linear B script, the earliest known written language of the Greek people, ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields, bristling ...