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Who were the Greek warrior Spartans? The Peloponnesian peninsula sits at the south west corner of Greece, poised like a soccer ball across a narrow peninsula at the foot of mainland Greece. In the easternmost corner of the Peloponnesus, at one time sat the region known as Laconia. The principal city of Laconia was Sparta. These Spartans or Lacedaemonians formed a unique society organized along communal and militaristic principles, a society that has been described by most historians as stagnant and has seldom evoked words of praise. One's first obligation as a Spartan was to the state, and one's noblest virtue was to lay down one's life for the state. Approximately 600 years before Christ, Sparta was feeling expansionistic pressure due to population growth and food scarcity and consequently launched a westward thrust against its neighboring state, Messenia. Sparta succeeded in conquering Messenia, but this led to a curious situation. What...

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