Leonidas, the legendary King of Sparta, is mostly known for leading the 300 heroic Spartans and dying with them in the Battle ...

The Spartan-Persian peace, known as the peace of Antalcidas , marked Greek divisions, and symbolized Persian dominance in ...

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 ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

As its visibility ramps up at E3 this week, we investigate the current status of World Forge's real-time strategy title Located in a verdant, fertile valley, the famed ancient city-state of Sparta ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Sparta: Ancient Wars has been in development for two years now, but very little of the game has been seen so far. WorldForge skipped an appearance at ...

A “myth of the past” is necessary to justify “contemporary preoccupations,” writes Oswyn Murray, an emeritus fellow at Oxford. This is a profound realization, and it leads the author to a rousing ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Initially set for a fourth-quarter 2006 release, Ancient Wars: Sparta was pushed back to April 2007 to give Russian developer World Forge more time to ...

It’s all Hellenic to me. The Creative Assembly has announced a new campaign pack for Total War: Rome 2, titled 'Wrath of Sparta'. Described as an entirely new campaign for Rome 2, Wrath of Sparta ...