The alt-right and other fanatics of the ancient civilization are distorting history. Sparta can teach us how to rethink liberal democracy. The city of Sparta isn’t much to look at these days. A couple ...

Day 6: Sparta and Mystras We didn’t let the 103-degree heat stop us from seeing Sparta and Mystras today! In the morning, we were guided through the ruins of ancient Sparta and then took a short bus ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to toughen ...