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  2. History of Sparta - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Sparta - Wikipedia

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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 become ...

  4. History of eugenics - Wikipedia

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    Seneca the Younger The Twelve Tables of Roman Law, established early in the formation of the Roman Republic, obliged citizens by law to immediately kill any "dreadfully deformed" child. [b] And so selective infanticide seems to have been comparably widespread in Ancient Rome as it had already long been in Athens. Furthermore, according to Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 120), a Roman of the Imperial ...

  5. Spartan Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Spartan Constitution (or Spartan politeia) are the government and laws of the classical Greek city-state of Sparta. All classical Greek city-states had a politeia; the politeia of Sparta however, was noted by many classical authors for its unique features ...

  6. Corinthian War - Wikipedia

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    Grave Stele of Dexileos, 394–393 BC. The Corinthian War (395–387 BC) was a conflict in ancient Greece which pitted Sparta against a coalition of city-states comprising Thebes, Athens, Corinth and Argos, backed by the Achaemenid Empire.

  7. Trojan War - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.

  8. Archaic Greece - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, [1] following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, Greeks settled across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea: by the end of the period, they were part of a trade network ...

  9. First Peloponnesian War - Wikipedia

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    Pleistoanax. Nicomedes. The First Peloponnesian War (460–445 BC) was fought between Sparta as the leaders of the Peloponnesian League and Sparta's other allies, most notably Thebes, and the Delian League led by Athens with support from Argos. This war consisted of a series of conflicts and minor wars, such as the Second Sacred War.