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A 19th-century artistic representation of Spartan boys exercising while young girls taunt them.. The agoge (Ancient Greek: ἀγωγή, romanized: ágōgḗ in Attic Greek, or ἀγωγά, ágōgá in Doric Greek) was the training program pre-requisite for Spartiate (citizen) status.
The Selection of Children in Sparta, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, small version of 1785, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.. In ancient times, exposition (from the Latin expositus, "exposed") was a method of infanticide or child abandonment in which infants were left in a wild place either to die due to hypothermia, hunger, animal attack [1] [2] or to be collected by slavers or by those unable to produce ...
In September, an appointed citizens review committee for a library in Montgomery County, Texas recategorized a children's book by Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) member Linda Coombs from ...
In 555 BC, Sparta defeated Tegea and forced that state to become its ally. Around 544 BC, Sparta defeated Argos and established itself as the pre-eminent power in the Peloponnese . For over 150 years, Sparta became the dominant land power of Greece, with the Spartiates hoplites serving as the minority core of its army.
In Greek mythology, Megapenthes (Ancient Greek: Μεγαπένθης), [1] the illegitimate son of Menelaus, king of Mycenaean Sparta, by a slave. He married Alector's daughter, Iphiloche (or Echemela). [2] His name means 'great sorrow'. [3]
A Texas board rejected recommending clemency Wednesday for a condemned man who would be the first in the cou n try to be executed for a case of “shaken baby syndrome.”. Robert Roberson, 57, is ...
(The Center Square) – A Texas Children's Hospital cardiologist was chastised by Gov. Greg Abbott after he posted a TikTok video advising potential patients that they don't have to comply with an ...
Anaxandridas was the son of Leon, who reigned during the first half of the 6th century, between 590 and 560 BC. [1] [2] He belonged to the Agiads, one of the two royal dynasties of Sparta (the other being the Eurypontids).