Famous quotes and anecdotes associated with the Spartans: Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could ...

In one of the greatest, yet now forgotten, small-unit engagements in American history, several hundred Marylanders made an epic stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae.

In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

Spartan men aged between 20 and 60 would then be called up, starting with the most experienced. Each year the ephors, or magistrates, chose the 300 best hoplites in Sparta to become the hippeis ...

Michigan State basketball will face the top-ranked team in the country tomorrow as the Spartans square off against ...

On one hand, when you look at the Spartans' five losses, two were games they should have won, had it not been for self-inflicted wounds. And when a team is hurting itself, that's as much of an ...

Regardless of their recent loss against the Indiana Hoosiers, a team that improved their record of 9-0, the Spartans' focus cannot be on the loss, it will be focused on what to improve on in the ...

In 2024, several new Halo Waypoint Chronicle articles were published, slowly introducing the concept of new Spartan-like super soldiers being aligned with the Banished. Unlike the original or ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

Not too long ago, Ultimate Ears released its higher-end Epicboom Bluetooth speaker, which sounds very good but is pretty pricey at $300 and somewhat large. The newer Everboom is about half the ...