In history, few replies have ever carried as much weight, defiance, and wit as a single word once uttered by the Spartans: ...
The division of the population into distinct social classes varied across different city-states, kingdoms and polities in ancient Greece.
As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...