Every Spartan boy spent his childhood at a state ... written around the time Gorgidas was assembling his new military unit, the character Phaedrus reflects on what good soldiers male couples ...

Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

The operation is managed by an organization called Task Force Spartan, which is made of active Army and National Guard units ...

The U.S. Army announced Thursday that the Idaho Army National Guard's 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team has been selected ...

but in A Small but Spartan Band we are given an interesting look at the Floridians who served in Virginia theatre of operations. As the authors’ note, the Floridians of Lee’s army performed their ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest strengths was its citizens’ “contempt of pleasure.” ...