What got Frank Miller obsessed with the story of the 300 in the first place was “The 300 Spartans,” a 1962 epic that, although it suffers from tin-man acting by Richard Egan (who keeps smiling ...

Probably the greatest thing about Zach Snyder’s 300 besides hearing Leonidas (Gerard Butler with his CGI enhanced six-pack abs) vociferously proclaim “This is Sparta!” and kick one of Xerxes’s ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sparta: War of Empires Set in the 5th century BC, the ancient world of Greece is in turmoil, under threat from Xerxes and his giant Persian Empire. This is ...

At the beginning of his new book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, Paul Rahe quotes a passage from John Stuart Mill—an 1846 passage in which Mill writes that Ancient Greek history is ...

Sparta: War of Empires launched today, bringing historic Spartan fighting to Facebook. The massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game from developer Plarium puts players in fifth century B.C ...

Frank Miller has retained a modicum of control over how his graphic novels (don’t call them “comic books”) are brought to the screen, whether by holding out for the best offer and participating in the ...

In the spring of 480 BC, Xerxes, King of Kings, gazed down on the Hellespont, the narrow channel dividing Asia from Europe. From his throne on the headland, Xerxes watched as his engineers put the ...

The real-time strategy genre is once again getting a little crowded, though lately we've been seeing more quality titles than otherwise. We're hoping that by the time Eidos and World Forge release ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If King Leonidas had a grave, rather than just a glorious undying legend, he'd be spinning it. The most arse-kicking King of our most ...