One of the key moments in Herodotus’ chronicle of the Persian wars comes at the narrow mountain passage of Thermopylae. Hopelessly outnumbered, but never outclassed, 300 Spartans led a contingent of ...

Some sources claim that the Spartans threw their babies off a cliff if they were born with a deformity. Did this ever ...

Alexandra Glekas was a Spartan warrior in mind and heart, especially when it came to her kitchen. At St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral on Massachusetts Avenue, where she'd been a parishioner for 81 ...