Welcome to the home of the Western Spartans

Welcome to the home of the Western Spartans. As members and participants within the Society For Creative Anachronism, we are a group of medieval and ancient history enthusiasts who are dedicated to the study of the combat and martial arts of our ancestors.

More specifically, we are an SCA war unit whose ideals and inspiration stem from the principles set in history by the warriors of ancient Sparta.

The Spartans may be best remembered for their pivotal role in the Persian Wars, and the battle of Thermopolyae in 480 B.C. was their shining moment. In that crucial battle, strategically fought in a small pass to limit the movements of the huge Persian force, 300 Spartan warriors and their allies held off an invasion force of, by many accounts, two million.

They fought for seven days, until, their weapons smashed and broken from the slaughter, they fought with bare hands and teeth before being at last overwhelmed. The Spartans and their allies died to the last man, but the standard of valor they set by their sacrifice inspired the Greeks to rally and eventually overthrow the Persian armies.

It is from that great stand and their ideals that we strive to set the example for others by being the best war unit the Kingdom of the West has ever seen – and we do this by constantly striving to raise the bar on how to fight and train for war in the SCA.

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