Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of ... may well have conquered Greece. Later in the same century, however, Athens found itself at war with its ferocious former ally, a ...

Unfortunately, when he reached Sparta, the city was in the middle of a religious festival that forbade mobilization for war during its ... greatest runner of ancient Greece, it was not Phidippides ...

He burst onto the scene in 425 B.C. during Sparta’s struggle against Athens in the Peloponnesian War, breaking through ... shows a bust of the ancient Greek historian and general Thucydides ...