Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... common was a tree trunk dressed in the helmet, armor, and weapons of the defeated. If the battle was particularly significant, a stone monument ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited ... who had forced the Greeks to run at them in full armor during the battles of Marathon in 490 and Plataea ...

Historian Michael Taylor rates depictions of ancient Rome in movies and TV shows ... Finally, he analyzes the visual depictions of Roman armor and weapons in "King Arthur," starring Clive Owen ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country ... the Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC. In battle, hoplites fought as a team. They lined up in ranks ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world ... Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous.