EditorialStudents leave flowers under a statue on the Michigan State University campus after a mass shooting that occurred the night before, in East Lansing on Tuesday morning, Feb. 14, 2023. (Nick Hagen/The New York Times)
EditorialA makeshift memorial has been established surrounding a Spartan statue on the Michigan State University campus following a mass shooting at the school, in East Lansing on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (Nick Hagen/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents embrace after leaving flowers at the Spartan statue at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (Nick Hagen/The New York Times)
EditorialLeonidas at Thermopylae. Engraving based on the painting by Jacques-Louis David. It depicts the battle at Thermopylae, where the Spartan Leonidas blocked the way of the Persian army led by Xerxes. Leonidas is shown in the centre, naked and armed in Spa...
EditorialLeonidas at Thermopylae. Engraving based on the painting by Jacques-Louis David. It depicts the battle at Thermopylae, where the Spartan Leonidas blocked the way of the Persian army led by Xerxes. Leonidas is shown in the centre, naked and armed in Spa...
EditorialDon Bolduc, a retired Army general and 2020 election denier, declares victory in a tight New Hampshire Republican senatorial primary, in Hampton, N.H., on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (John Tully/The New York Times)
EditorialThe past two years have changed the way we live in our homes. Are we ready to return to a spartan existence, or is our new stuff what sparks joy now? (Steffi Walthall/The New York Times)
EditorialRoman man having upright sex with Spartan woman. Unknown stone. Pierre inconnue. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois dHarcanvilles Monumens du Culte Secret des Dames Romaines, Sabellus, Capri (Monuments to the Secret Cult of Roman Women, Leclerc...
EditorialLeonidas at Thermopylae, Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate, The helmeted, but naked figure of the warrior king of Sparta, Leonidas, holding a shield and carrying a sword in the center of a rocky pass with a field of warriors. On the l...
EditorialDesign for Ceiling with Spartan Women in Central Rectangular Panel, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper, Spartan women giving shields to their husbands and sons while exho...
EditorialSpartan Virtue, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper, Young man in armor shown receiving shield from woman seated in armory. Staircase connects room with big hall. Framed b...
EditorialJoggers wearing face masks near Spartan Stadium at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., Sept. 19, 2020. (Sylvia Jarrus/The New York Times)
EditorialGreece. Ancient Sparta. Spartan woman saying goodbye to her son who goes to war. Drawing by Dionisio Baixeras (1862-1943). Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), volume II, 1881.
EditorialStatue of Mars, god of war, naked except for a helmet, shield, rod and cape. The Lakonian sword indicates that he was a Spartan. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.
EditorialAbout 6,000 Michigan State University students were registered to vote in East Lansing in August when the university announced that most classes would be taught online. (Sylvia Jarrus/The New York Times)