Few sites from antiquity exhibit such an absolute contrast as Sparta. As Thucydides predicted, the remains of one of Greece's most powerful states belie the power it once held. In the years of the ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

It is argued that Sparta did not have a true prytaneion in the sense used by S. Miller in The Prytaneion: Its Form and Function. On the basis of literary and epigraphical evidence it is instead ...

Greek design practice Petrās Architecture have created a new proposal for an archaeological museum in Sparta. Designed for the Peloponnese Municipality, the project integrates an existing listed ...

ROME – Archaeologists have found a fresco in an ancient Pompeii bedroom that depicts a sensual scene of the Roman god Jupiter, disguised as a swan, and a legendary queen of Sparta from Greek mythology ...