A Long Island school district is being sued over claims its new mascot, a Spartan, is “a symbol of white supremacy ... Greeks who were conquered in war and forced them into servitude.

On Sparta’s Second Attic War, by Paul A. Rahe. Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent ...