The ancient city ... visited Sparta, which at the time was ruled by King Menelaus. Menelaus’ wife Helen was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. When Paris departed Greece, he ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world ... were relatively small. Sparta had even fewer citizens, but was in many ways an exceptional case. Its powerful military elite ...

Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been ... relieve the beleaguered city of Methone (modern Methoni) in southwest Greece.

It is widely believed that there were more poets in Sparta during the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. than in any other Greek city-state. Full citizens had ample time for entertainments because ...

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire ... in their efforts to defeat independent Greece and thereafter their heirs were more concerned ...

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There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves ...