The statue seems to have been over 12 meters tall ... began—a tremendous conflict pitting Athens and its allies against Sparta and its allies, a war that would, with some interruptions, last ...

Leaving neither monuments nor epics, Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece.

Next time you hit the road in Wisconsin, plan to stop at some of these unique (and massive!) roadside statues.

Tsakonika, the language of ancient Sparta, still survives today, despite the ravages of time and the many reversals of ...

The Erechtheion, the ancient Greek temple held up by statues known as Caryatids, still stands on the Athens Acropolis.

For a city that’s displayed to the world a giant bean, 25-foot tall American Gothic statue, and a massive Picasso ... by Tony Tasset and fabricated in Sparta, Wisconsin. As is par for the ...

Zillmer was honored Saturday at the 19th Annual Veteran Statue Dedication at Aero Park. Zillmer was born in Black River Falls and raised on a dairy, hog and chicken farm north of Sparta ...

He's Theseus' lover in Kaos and responsible for the literal shit pile on the gods' statue. He's the leader ... The fighters are named Carl Crixus of Sparta (named for the gladiator from Gaul ...

Statues aimed to depict the ideal human form ... Even in cities like Athens and Sparta, these figures are very approximate. In Athens in the 5th century BCE, there were about 300,000 people. Among ...

A respected citizen and prominent businessman of Sparta (Wallace Wilkinson) is mysteriously murdered after a dedication ceremony for a statue he created in the town center...and his family is the ...

Each new tribe had a statue in the agora, a shrine ... Up to 462/1, Cimon, who favored cooperation with Sparta, had presumably held further democratic reforms in check. With his disgrace after the ...

Owner, Lou Moshakos, is a native of Lykovrisi, a small village in Greece outside of Sparta. His love for connecting ...