In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 of his warriors made their legendary last stand at Thermopylae. Facing a Persian army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the Spartans held their ground ...

A seemingly drunk man did his best impression of Leonidas from hit movie 300, shouting, "This is Sparta" while allegedly stealing a bottle of vodka. The man was caught on camera running away from ...

Stoic, battle-hardened killing machines who never surrendered and always won - over millennia, Spartans have acquired near-mythic status as history's hardest men. But a new book aims to debunk that ...