The Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BCE during the Greco-Persian Wars, remains one of the most well-known conflicts in ancient history. Although the Persian Empire ultimately won the battle, the ...

If you're a teenage or twenty-something American male, it may be the catchphrase of the year, drawn from ancient history and a new Hollywood blockbuster. "Spartans, tonight we dine in hell!" is the ...

Centuries after the Persian wars, a coalition of Greek city states fought again on Thermopylae. This time a Celtic army ...

I learned from my high school class in world history, half a century ago, that in the Battle of Thermopylae, about 300 Spartans led by King Leonidas, bore the brutal onslaught of thousands of Persians ...

The heroic last stand by 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae is the most famous incident from the Persians’ failed attempt to conquer Greece in 480 BC. The Persian king Xerxes had invaded ...

The Thermopylae, the "hot gates" or also "gates of fire," is a mountain pass at the foot of Mount Kallidromo in modern Greece where legend tells that King Leonidas and 300 of his Spartan warriors ...

Greek football has an ambitious plan to reform how the game is played in the country Yorick Jansens/Getty Images 480BC. A force of some 7,000 men, led by the Spartan king Leonidas, guard the narrow ...

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'Go tell the Spartans, passer-by, / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.' As every schoolboy once knew, this is the poem written by Simonides to commemorate the Three Hundred – the elite force ...