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- War (7002 bytes)
14: ... problematic. Many now believe that wars should only be fought as a last resort. Some, known as [[pac...
16: ...is attitude was embraced by many societies from [[Sparta]] in [[Ancient Greece]] and the [[Ancient Rome|An...
18: Today, some see only [[just war]]s (which also cause suffering, but a... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...]-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present [[Greece|Greek s...
15: ...ges|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondar...
34: ...aritime and mercantile powers as well. Athens and Sparta developed a rivalry that dominated Greek politics...
36: ...ermanent militarist regime under a dual monarchy. Sparta dominated the other cities of the [[Peloponnese]]...
48: ...e of Salamis]]. A year later the Greeks under the Spartan [[Pausanias (general)|Pausanius]] defeated the P... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
1: '''Agesilaus II''', or Agesilaos II, king of [[Sparta]], of the [[Eurypontid]] family, was the son of [...
4: ...s recalled to [[Greece]] owing to the war between Sparta and the combined forces of [[Athens]], [[Thebes, ...
5: troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces
9: Shortly before this battle the Spartan [[navy]], of which he had
17: Sparta. In [[389 BC]] he conducted a campaign in [[Acar... - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ...uled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pausanias of Sparta|Pausanius]].
3: ...n [[427 BC]], and as king was the chief leader of Spartan military
8: ...razed and a fine of 100,000 [[drachma]]e imposed only by promising to atone for his error by a signal ...
10: ...eir [[perioeci]] (citizens of cities conquered by Sparta, who were given some privileges) and to allow
11: Spartans to take part in the [[Olympic Games]] and sacri... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
19: ... succeeded by an unscrupulous trick in duping the Spartan ambassadors, and persuading the Athenians to con...
22: ...[[Herma|hermai]], and Alcibiades was accused not only of being the originator of the crime, but also o...
25: ...e escaped on the journey home and made his way to Sparta.
26: ...nd his property confiscated, he openly joined the Spartans, and persuaded them to send [[Gylippus]] to ass...
28: ...in a few months he had lost the confidence of the Spartans, and at the instigation of [[Agis II]], whose p... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
3: ... Greek shows that he must have come very early to Sparta, where, after the close of the Messenian wars, th...
7: ... of Asiatic sensuousness seem out of place amidst Spartan simplicity. The fragments are scanty, the most c... - Amyntas III of Macedon (1278 bytes)
5: He concluded a treaty with the [[Sparta]]ns, who assisted him to reduce [[Olynthus]] ([[3... - Andocides (1237 bytes)
3: ...[391 BC]] he was one of the ambassadors sent to [[Sparta]] to discuss peace terms, but the negotiations fa...
5: ...n Mysteries]]; ''De Pace,'' advocating peace with Sparta; ''Contra [[Alcibiades|Alcibiadem]],'' generally ... - Antalcidas (1665 bytes)
1: '''Antalcidas''' was a [[Sparta]]n soldier and diplomat, the son of Leon.
5: ...act his efforts. Tiribazus, who was favourable to Sparta, threw Conon into prison, but [[Artaxerxes II]] (...
12: ...favour with Artaxerxes, until the annihilation of Spartan supremacy agfter the [[Battle of Leuctra]] dimin... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
29: ...ectedly strong resistance thwarted his assault on Sparta. He was immediately offered an opportunity to in... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
7: ...is time engaged in conversation. However, it is unlikely that Socrates was able to live off of family...
9: ...ian Empire]] to its decline after its defeat by [[Sparta]] and its allies in the [[Peloponnesian War]]. At...
11: ... led Socrates to the conclusion that he was wise only in so far as he ''knew'' he knew nothing and str...
25: :''False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul wit...
27: ... rest of your lives you might continue sleeping, unless the god caring for you should send you another... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
11: Artemis was not worshipped heavily in much of mainland [[Greece]]. In [[Asia Minor]], however, she w...
13: ...ron]] and the festival of [[Artemis Orthia]] in [[Sparta]].
19: ...ped in a temple on the [[Aventine Hill]] where mainly lower-class citizens and slaves worshipped her. ...
33: ...rtility goddess, akin to [[Cybele]], unlike in mainland Greece. Statues in Greece depict her with her...
41: ...loating island of [[Delos]], which was neither mainland nor a real island and gave birth there. The i... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
10: ...im to organise games in honour of the gods. The [[Sparta]]n adversary of Iphitos then decided to stop the ...
23: The only competition held then was the ''[[stadion]]'' ra...
41: ...e [[Summer Olympic Games|Modern Olympic Games]], only men who spoke greek were allowed to participate ...
43: ...y after his boyfriend interceded with the king of Sparta, who presumably vouched for his youth, was he per...
55: ...6 BC]] and again in [[392 BC]], the horses of a [[Spartan]] princess named [[Cynisca]] won her the four-ho... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
37: ...an flesh was said to turn into a wolf, and could only regain human form if he did not eat again of hum...
42: ...pus outside of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]], and the Spartans even had a shrine to ''Zeus [[Agamemnon]]''.
53: ...ian War]]. Zeus Ammon was especially favored at [[Sparta]], where a temple to him existed by the time of t...
83: ...era discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only speak the words of others (hence our modern word... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
9: ...poleis in Greece, the Acropolis of Athens is commonly known as "the Acropolis" without qualification. ...
11: ... cliffs on three sides. It is accessible by foot only to the west, where it is linked by a low ridge t...
16: ...s defeated by a popular revolt supported by the [[Sparta]]ns, the walls were demolished. On the same spot,... - Athena Nike (1650 bytes)
1: ...g she would remain in Athens for success over the Spartans. - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ...and the [[Peloponnesian League]] which included [[Sparta]] and [[Corinth, Greece|Corinth]]. The war was do...
5: ...he Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leaders of the [[Peloponnesian Leag...
7: ...economic sanctions against [[Megara]], an ally of Sparta. These sanctions, known as the [[Megarian decree]...
11: ... very nearly unbeatable (thanks to the legendary Spartan forces). The Athenian Empire, though based in th...
13: ...to go home to take care of the harvest. Moreover, Spartan slaves, known as [[helots]], needed to be kept u... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
7: ...ner)|Phidippides]] got the message for help to [[Sparta]] in record time, but in the end the Athenians an...
9: .... At Thermopylae, King [[Leonidas I|Leonidas]] of Sparta and his 300 soldiers, as well as [[Demophilus]] a...
11: ... Also in this year a Greek fleet commanded by the Spartan king [[Leotychides]] destroyed the remaining Per... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
6: ...lization around [[1100 BC]]. The collapse is commonly attributed to the [[Dorian invasion]], though so...
17: ...of the Mycenean decorated pottery on the Greek mainland date to the beginning of the Late [[Bronze Age...
20: ...the [[Late Helladic]] phases (LH) on the Greek Mainland.
45: The description of the '''LHIIA''' is mainly based on the material from Kourakou East Alley. ...
49: .... There is material from Asine, Athens (wells), [[Sparta]] (Menelaion), [[Nichoria]] and the 'Atreus Bothr... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
7: ...nese]]. Later arose the city-states of Athens and Sparta among many others that constituted the [[Hellenic...
9: ...re actually extensions of the mountains on the mainland. One chain extends across the sea to [[Chios]]...
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