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Bookmark or Share- Sparta | History, Location, Population, Map, & Facts | BritannicaSparta, ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece. The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the 6th to the 2nd century BCE.
- Sparta Was Much More Than an Army of Super WarriorsAncient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was raised from infancy to fight to the death. This view, as ingrained as...
- Ancient Greek civilization - Sparta, Athens, City-States | BritannicaQuick Facts. Date: 1200 BCE - 323. Major Events: Hellenistic age. Greco-Persian Wars. Peloponnesian War. Classical antiquity. Battle of Thermopylae. (Show more) Key People: Aristotle. Socrates. Plato. Euripides. Pericles. Related Topics: Olympic Games. Greek philosophy. Greek religion. Neoclassical art. Greek mythology. Related Places: Turkey.
- Sparta - World History EncyclopediaSparta was one of the most important city-states in ancient Greece and was famous for its military prowess. The professional and well-trained Spartan hoplites...
- Spartans: Their Values, Customs, Culture and LifestyleSpartans were people from Sparta, a prominent city-state in Laconia (on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula) in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in the Eurotas valley of Laconia.
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