For most of its history, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings. Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in...

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...

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ἐκκλησία) was the citizens' assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. Unlike its more famous counterpart in Athens, the Spartan assembly had...

of elders in ancient Sparta. Sometimes called Spartan senate in the literature, it was made up of the two Spartan kings, plus 28 men over the age of sixty...

discipline. The education featured in the agōgē involved cultivating loyalty to Sparta through military training (e.g., pain tolerance), hunting, dancing, singing...

kneel before the Kings of Sparta, and were held in high esteem by the citizens because of the importance of their powers and because of the holy role that...

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...

establishment of a democracy, the Ancient Greek city-state of Argos was ruled by kings. Most of them are probably mythical or only semi-historical. This list is...

his successor, Agis I, founder of the Agiad dynasty of the Kings of Sparta. The title of archēgetēs, "founding magistrate," was explicitly denied to...

classical authors. The classical authors and the literate population of Sparta knew better than to suppose that the rhetra went into effect as written...

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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...

grandfather of Eurypon, founder of the Eurypontid dynasty of the Kings of Sparta. The title of archēgetēs, "founding magistrate," was explicitly denied...

population that constituted a majority of the population of Laconia and Messenia – the territories ruled by Sparta. There has been controversy since antiquity...

Santorini) in the 7th century BC. Kings of Cyrene received a recurring posthumous hero cult like that of the Dorian kings of Sparta. Battus I 630–600 BC Arcesilaus...

the most powerful magistrates of Sparta after the kings. The Spartiates were also the source of the krypteia, a sort of secret police, which, by measures...

commanded the fleet in Ancient Sparta. The powers of the navarch were extensive and were not subordinate to the two Spartan kings. The navarch commanded the...

Perioikoi (Περίοικοι, /peˈri.oj.koj/) were the second-tier citizens of the polis of Sparta until c. 200 BC. They lived in several dozen cities within Spartan...

This is a list of the longest-reigning monarchs of all time, detailing the monarchs and lifelong leaders who have reigned the longest in world history...

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plural of συσσίτιον syssítion) were, in ancient Greece, common meals for men and youths in social or religious groups, especially in Crete and Sparta, but...

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after her father returned to power. List of Greek monarchs List of kings of Sparta Cartledge, Hellenistic and Roman Sparta, p. 40. Christien, "Léonidas II"...

king of Sparta. He is presumed to have participated in Pelops' attack on Oenomaus in 1312 BC. His tomb was shown near Scias at Sparta. List of kings of Sparta...

we are also the only ones who give birth to men." Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas, as quoted by Plutarch Spartan women were famous in ancient...

Ἄγις) was a king of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty. He was possibly the first historical king of Sparta, reigning at the end of the tenth century...

allowed for the possibility of a translation made in Italy. This is based on the addition to the list of kings of Sparta of a certain Cemenelaus, which...

Soos (Greek: Σόος) was a fictional king of Sparta, created in the 4th century BC in order to harmonise the list of the two Spartan dynasties. Various deeds...

article lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those...