Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became legendary in history.

A New York school district is facing a lawsuit from a former teacher and parent who says its new Spartans logo is a symbol of hate and White supremacy.

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A New York father and NAACP leader is demanding his school district ditch its new "Spartans" mascot, alleging the warriors from ancient Greece symbolize enslavement and white supremacy.

Moss suggested that the Spartan mascot is offensive to women since the “ancient Spartans did not allow females to be soldiers in the military.” The school district began its search for a new ...

He also outlined that while women weren’t part of the military, Spartan females actually had more rights than most others in the ancient world — including access to education and owning ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to ...

Moss's complaint accuses the district of selecting the "Spartans" as their new mascot, despite it being "racially problematic," claiming the ancient Greek warrior is a "symbol of hate" banned by ...