The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

The Spartan phalanx, a tight military formation usually eight men deep, would then begin its advance, lances raised, in time with the music.

The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.E.—the subject of Zack Snyder’s 2006 film 300—has been ... This professional army, ...