Little remains of the ancient ... Sparta’s kings oversaw a society with little interest in intellectual and artistic pursuits beyond patriotic poetry. Religion did occupy a central role in this ...

The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers ... about what happened - all written language and art disappeared. Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after ...

Famous quotes and anecdotes associated with the Spartans: Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could ...

The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers ... about what happened - all written language and art disappeared. Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after ...