The Spartans raised their children to be tough and stoic servants of the state. Boys were sent to train as soldiers from a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Those who study Greek mythology may have noticed similarities between towns like Homer, Castor, Alexandria, Athens, Eros, Sparta, Urania, and Arcadia, Louisiana, and the ...

Sparta’s class of elite warriors were freed from ordinary work, their needs met by slaves. The system had a built-in weakness ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

Faced with increasing pressure from much of the world over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and the sprawling humanitarian disaster that resulted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked a ...

During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”. This phrase, ...