In ancient Sparta, the Agoge prepared boys for a lifetime of military service with harsh training that emphasised strength ...

Xerxes offers to make Leonidas a warlord ruling over all of Greece and much of Europe if the Spartan King will submit to Xerxes’s divine will. Leonidas turns the god king down with a mocking insult.

What would have become of Western civilization if, in 480 BC, the king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, Leonidas, had told ...

Without evidence, a Spartan king could not be imprisoned, so once more ... which was carried out not far from there, near the tomb of Leonidas. The verses he had inscribed on that tripod were erased ...

The heroic Spartan king Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag bunch of 13 Spartan misfit warriors to defend their homeland against thousands of invading ...