Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would ... were relatively small. Sparta had even fewer citizens, but was in many ways an exceptional case.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece ... proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime ...

Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

A rare Corinthian helmet from ancient Greece, made of bronze and dating back to between 500 and 450 BCE, is set to be auctioned in London later this month. The auction house Apollo Art Auctions is ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.

We are transported back to the year 500 BCE to meet Aspasia of Miletus - one of the most important women in Athens - to find out about everyday life in Ancient Greece. Our civilisation is known ...

Musk was responding to a report claiming that young men aged 19 to 24 with "little to no government experience" were playing ...

Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese in Greece, Sparta was a warrior society where males aged seven ...