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Encyclopedia - Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - Sparta - Modern Sparta
Prior to modern times, the site of Sparta was occupied by a relatively small village that lay in the shadow of Mystras, a more important ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - Sparta - Military Service And Training
The origins of the powers exercised by the assembly of the citizens, or apella, are virtually unknown, due to the paucity of historical d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - Sparta - Constitution
We know little of the internal development on Sparta. Many Greeks believed there had been none, and that "the stability of the Spartan co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - Sparta - The Spartan World
Around the middle of the 6th century BC, the southern Peloponnese was Spartan territory. With an area of 8,050 square kilometres, it was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - Sparta - Archaeology
There is a well-known passage in Thucydides which runs thus: "Suppose the city of Sparta to be deserted, and nothing left but the temple...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - Sparta - History
Main article: History of Sparta Sparta had the best army in ancient Greece; and was the most powerful state before the rise of Athens, a ...   » Read the article