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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 ...
Family. Lacedaemon was the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Taygete. By Princess Sparta, the daughter of former King Eurotas, he was the father of his heir Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos. [2] In a rare version of the myth, Taygete was the wife of Lacedaemon and their children were Himerus and Cleodice.
The Lacedaemonion Politeia (Greek: Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία), known in English as the Polity, Constitution, or Republic of the Lacedaemonians, or the Spartan Constitution, [1] [2] [3] is a treatise attributed to the ancient Greek historian Xenophon, describing the institutions, customs, and practices of the ancient Spartans.
A flow map of the battle From a strategic point of view, by defending Thermopylae, the Greeks were making the best possible use of their forces. [ 79 ] As long as they could prevent a further Persian advance into Greece, they had no need to seek a decisive battle and could, thus, remain on the defensive.
The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece.It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states (including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara), and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I (allied with Greece's Boeotians, Thessalians, and Macedonians).
Biography. Lacedaemonius was the son of Cimon, a pro-Sparta general and Athenian political figure, [4] and Isodice who was the daughter of Euryptolemus I, a cousin of Pericles. [5][6] He was a grandson of the famous Miltiades IV. An account cited that he had a twin called Oulius. [5] He was also the brother of Miltiades V. [5]
Sparta was one of two daughters of King Eurotas of Laconia and Clete, with the other being Tiasa. [1][2] By her husband, Lacedaemon, Sparta became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos, and the grandmother of Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo and Zephyrus. [3][4] She was also an ancestor of King Tyndareus of ...
Between 1270 and 1272, Lacedaemon fell to the Byzantines, and in 1278, the last Catholic bishop, Aimon, was moved to the see of Koroni. [5] At the same time, his restored Orthodox counterpart took up his residence in Mistra. [2] Lacedaemon remains a titular see of the Catholic Church, counting 18 holders from 1514 on. It has been vacant since 1967.