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 ...

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 ...

King Leonidas I of of Sparta was, by all accounts, a brilliant tactician and military leader. Leonidas in 300 was the same, although he did have to contend with factors that the real thing didn't have ...