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Nicomedes (fl. 460 – 457 BC) was a Spartan military commander and a scion of the royal Agiad dynasty. He was a regent of Sparta during the minority of Pleistoanax , the son of his brother Pausanias .
Endius: Scion of wealthy family, son of Alcibiades (served in 413/2 BCE). [55] Ephor Brasidas during combat. Brasidas: Came from higher class family (served in 431/0 BC). [56] Leon: Became an ephor at an older age and was the founder of a Spartan colony and Olympic victor (served in 419/8 BCE). [57]
Pausanias (Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας) was a Spartan regent and a general. In 479 BC, as a leader of the Hellenic League's combined land forces, he won a pivotal victory against the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of Plataea.
Spartan kings received a recurring posthumous hero cult like that of the similarly Doric kings of Cyrene. [4] The kings' firstborn sons, as heirs-apparent, were the only Spartan boys expressly exempt from the Agoge; however, they were allowed to take part if they so wished, and this endowed them with increased prestige when they ascended the ...
Eurotas River. According to myth, the first king of the region later to be called Laconia, but then called Lelegia was the eponymous King Lelex.He was followed, according to tradition, by a series of kings allegorizing several traits of later-to-be Sparta and Laconia, such as the Kings Myles, Eurotas, Lacedaemon and Amyclas of Sparta.
The Spartan shields' technical evolution and design evolved from bashing and shield wall tactics. They were of such great importance in the Spartan army that while losing a sword and a spear was an exception, to lose a shield was a sign of disgrace. Not only did a shield protect the user, but it also protected the whole phalanx formation.
Derdas II (Ancient Greek: Δέρδας) was the ruler of the region of Elimiotis (Ἐλιμιώτις), also rendered as Elymia (Ἐλιμία) and Elimeia (Ἐλίμεια), in the early 4th century BCE.
Short S.16 Scion G-ADDV from 22 May 1936, impressed 11 April 1940 as X9456 G-ADDX from 15 May 1936, impressed 3 April 1940 as X9430 Spartan Cruiser II G-ACBM from 28 July 1937 to August 1937. Routes. Ipswich — Clacton Ramsgate — Ilford (London) [A] Ilford — Ramsgate — Clacton — Ipswich with a request stop at Southend