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Sparta
Sparta , city of ancient Greece, capital of Laconia, on the Eurotas (Evrótas) River in the Peloponnesus. Spartan Society Sparta's government was headed by two hereditary kings furnished by two families; they were titular leaders in battle and in religion. Some of these kings were ab... Read more
Callias
Callias d. c.370 BC, Athenian leader, one of the generals of the Peloponnesian War. In his old age Callias was one of the ambassadors sent to Sparta with Callistratus to negotiate a peace treaty in 371 BC The treaty was ineffective, and friction between Epaminondas of Thebes and Agesilaus II of... Read more
Menelaus
Menelaus , in Greek mythology, king of Sparta, son of Atreus . He was the husband of Helen , father of Hermione , and younger brother of Agamemnon . When Paris, prince of Troy, abducted Helen, Menelaus asked the other Greek kings to join him in an expedition against Troy, beginning the Trojan W... Read more
Agesilaus II
Agesilaus II , c.444-360 BC, king of Sparta. After the death of Agis I (398? BC), he was brought to power by Lysander, whom he promptly ignored. After the Peloponnesian War the Greek cities in Asia Minor had not been ceded to Persia despite Sparta's promises, and in 396 BC Agesilaus went there to op... Read more
Lysander
Lysander , d. 395 BC, Spartan naval commander and statesman. Toward the end of the Peloponnesian War he was made admiral and built up the Spartan fleet so that it defeated (407 BC) the Athenians off Notium. Later he was responsible for the capture (405 BC) of the Athenian fleet at the mouth of the... Read more
Olynthus
Olynthus , ancient city of Greece, on the peninsula of Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí), NE of Potidaea. A league of Chalcidic cities grew up in the late 5th cent. BC, and Olynthus, as the head of this Chalcidian League, vigorously opposed the threats of Athens and Sparta. Athens captured the cit... Read more
Cleon
Cleon , d. 422 BC, Athenian political leader. The son of a tanner, he had little education; nevertheless, he was a gifted speaker. He began his political career with a series of relentless attacks on Pericles . He was antagonistic to Sparta and successfully opposed (425 BC) Sparta's peace proposals... Read more
Epaminondas
Epaminondas , d. 362 BC, Greek general of Thebes. He was a pupil of Lysias the Pythagorean, but his early life is otherwise obscure. As the Theban delegate to the peace conference of 371 BC he refused to surrender his claim to represent all Boeotia. Agesilaus II of Sparta therefore excluded Thebes f... Read more
ephors
ephors [Gr.,=overseers], in ancient Greece, magistrates in several Dorian states. In Sparta they comprised an executive, legislative, and judicial board of five Spartan citizens. This annually elected board functioned from at least the 8th cent. BC until it was abolished (c.227 BC) by Cleomenes III... Read more
Alcibiades
Alcibiades , c.450-404 BC, Athenian statesman and general. Of the family of Alcmaeonidae, he was a ward of Pericles and was for many years a devoted attendant of Socrates. He turned to politics after the Peace of Nicias (421 BC), and during the Peloponnesian War he was the leader in agitating agai... Read more

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Sparta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sparta , city of ancient Greece, capital of Laconia...River in the Peloponnesus. Spartan Society Sparta's government was headed by two hereditary...mountain-walled valley, the city-state of Sparta was created by invading Dorian Greeks...
Agesilaus II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...amassed a huge amount of booty. Meanwhile Sparta's supremacy in Greece was broken by...was killed in Boeotia, and the other of Sparta's dual kings, Pausanias, was banished...Coronea, where he was wounded, and reached Sparta well laden with loot. Agesilaus thus...
Pericles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Assembly, Pericles advocated hostility toward Sparta and radical constitutional reform at home. He worked...states and as the nominal partner of an inactive Sparta, or to attack Sparta, exploit the coalition for that purpose, and make...
Cleomenes I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...C., when the city of Plataea asked Sparta for help against Thebes. He suggested...into the Peloponnesian League, of which Sparta held the military command. But Cleomenes...Athens but failed. The only rival to Sparta in the Peloponnesus was Argos. Cleomenes...
Cleomenes III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...ca. 260-219 B.C.), the king of Sparta from 235 to 219, passed important reforms, revived Sparta's power, and was utterly defeated by...Cleomenes III was the son of King Leonidas of Sparta. He married Agiatis, the widow of Leonidas...
Alcibiades
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...B.C., during an uneasy peace with Sparta, by clever tactics he drove Athens into...with Argos and other Greek states against Sparta. This policy, which never gained the...Athens, failed completely in 418, when Sparta defeated the coalition's forces at Mantinea...
Peloponnesian War
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...x2013;404 bc) Conflict in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta . The underlying cause was Sparta's fear of Athenian hegemony. Athenian hostility towards Corinth , Sparta's chief ally, provoked the Spartan declaration of war. Having...
Epaminondas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Theban general and statesman who overthrew Sparta and whose original battle tactics revolutionized...of exiles, who liberated Thebes from Sparta in 379 B.C., and thereafter he played...League delegate at a peace conference in Sparta in 371, Epaminondas insisted upon full...
Corinthian War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Argos, Thebes, and Athens on one side and Sparta on the other. Angered by Sparta's tyrannical overlordship in Greece after the...Peloponnesian War, several Greek states took advantage of Sparta's involvement in war with Persia to challenge...
Agis IV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...tried with youthful idealism to return Sparta to the ancient laws of the country and...son of Eudamidas II, was elected one of Sparta's dual kings in 244 B.C. At that...the assembly after deposing the other of Sparta's dual kings, Leonidas. Agis, however...

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Sparta
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Sparta (Greek Spartí ) A city in the...Peloponnese in Greece. In ancient Greece, Sparta was a powerful city-state, capital of...slave class of helots working on the land. Sparta had also, in the late 8th century, defeated...
sparta
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music sparta, sparto ; spartita , spartito (It.). Score .
Peloponnesian War
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Peloponnesian War The war waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies between 431 and 404 BC. Sparta invaded Attica with its allies in 431...Piraeus, and avoid a land-battle with Sparta's superior army. Athens relied on its...
Greece
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...attempts to annex their land. ATHENS and SPARTA were now the major sea and land powers...and after a prolonged struggle it was Sparta who by 404 had crushed Athens and destroyed...WAR . In the 4th century Thebes toppled Sparta, but Greece as a whole was soon forced...
Alcibiades
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...the unsuccessful Athenian expeditions against Sparta and Sicily during the Peloponnesian War but fled to Sparta after being charged with sacrilege. He later held commands for Athens against Sparta and Persia before being exiled and later assassinated...
Spartan
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...xE4;rtn / • adj. of or relating to Sparta in ancient Greece. ∎  (usu...or luxury traditionally associated with ancient Sparta: spartan but adequate rooms. • n. a citizen of Sparta.
Hippias of Elis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...fees, particularly in Sicily, Although he recevived none in Sparta, where the law forbade a oreign education. 12 The picture...represent his native state on missions to other states, notably Sparta. 17 He was widely traveled — two visits to Athens...
helot
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology helot serf in ancient Sparta. XVI. — L. (H)īlōtæ , Hēlōtes pl. — Gr. Heílōtes , Heílōtai ; of unkn. orig.
Athens
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...supported brilliant artistic activity, attracting artists from throughout the Mediterranean. However, it was defeated by Sparta in the PELOPONNESIAN WAR , losing by 404 the empire, almost all its fleet, and the city walls. It recovered remarkably in...
Dorians
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...of Asia Minor. While culturally distinct in architecture and dialect, the Dorians retained their political system only in Sparta and Crete where the ruling military class subjected the local peoples as serfs and dependants. The Dorians were responsible...

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Sparta Brush aims to clean up worldwide
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