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Sparta[ 1] was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon ( Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn ), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in the Eurotas valley of Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. [ 2] Around 650 BC, it rose to ...
The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks. Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th ...
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas, as quoted by Plutarch [ 1] Spartan women were famous in ancient Greece for seemingly having more freedom than women elsewhere in the Greek world. To contemporaries outside of Sparta, Spartan women had a reputation for promiscuity and controlling their husbands. Spartan women could legally own and ...
The academic study of slavery in ancient Greece is beset by significant methodological problems. [6] Documentation is disjointed and very fragmented, focusing primarily on the city-state of Athens . No treatises are specifically devoted to the subject, and jurisprudence was interested in slavery only as much as it provided a source of revenue.
The Peloponnesian War ( Ancient Greek: Πόλεμος τῶν Πελοποννησίων, romanized : Pólemos tō̃n Peloponnēsíōn) (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.
Same view but rotated more to the northern side of the ruins. The history of Sparta describes the history of the ancient Doric Greek city-state known as Sparta from its beginning in the legendary period to its incorporation into the Achaean League under the late Roman Republic, as Allied State, in 146 BC, a period of roughly 1000 years.
Ancient Greek warfare. Warfare occurred throughout the history of Ancient Greece, from the Greek Dark Ages onward. The Greek 'Dark Ages' drew to an end as a significant increase in population allowed urbanized culture to be restored, which led to the rise of the city-states ( Poleis ). These developments ushered in the period of Archaic Greece ...
History of citizenship describes the changing relation between an individual and the state, known as citizenship. Citizenship is generally identified not as an aspect of Eastern civilization but of Western civilization. [ 1] There is a general view that citizenship in ancient times was a simpler relation than modern forms of citizenship ...