They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury ... Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

For the former Spartan star, he did anything but fail from the time he stopped onto campus in East Lansing. His career was a reflection of that mindset he carried throughout his life. The Gary ...

They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury ... Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers ...