Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C. Undaunted“By this time ...

Among the golden pages of the history of Ancient Greece there are pages blemished with the acts of traitors, men who betrayed ...

What got Frank Miller obsessed with the story of the 300 in the first place was “The 300 Spartans,” a 1962 epic that, although it suffers from tin-man acting by Richard Egan (who keeps smiling ...

At the beginning of his new book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, Paul Rahe quotes a passage from John Stuart Mill—an 1846 passage in which Mill writes that Ancient Greek history is ...

Xerxes, king of Persia, sent messengers to Sparta to force him into a Faustian bargain: “If you value your lives or your complete annihilation, listen to me,” the messenger said. “Xerxes conquers and ...

Frank Miller has retained a modicum of control over how his graphic novels (don’t call them “comic books”) are brought to the screen, whether by holding out for the best offer and participating in the ...

East is East and West is West, and the twain have been meeting for about 3,000 years now, ever since the Greeks tried to bring Helen of Sparta home from Troy. Few encounters have been as resonant as ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sparta: War of Empires Set in the 5th century BC, the ancient world of Greece is in turmoil, under threat from Xerxes and his giant Persian Empire. This is ...