Sparta Quotes

“Laconizein: The Art of Minimalism In Eating”
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“The most prominent religious cults in Sparta were the cults of Artemis, Helen, and Eileithyia.”
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“In Sparta, the only true leveler was warfare.”
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“the helots in Sparta was that helots were not owned by any individual.”
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“An important distinction between the slaves in other parts of the world”
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“Also, the ephors and gerontes moderated every meeting of the Apella.”
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“for the first time in history, ancient Sparta became a vassal state. It would never again taste independence.”
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“After hearing of his father’s role in the execution of Agis IV, Cleomenes,”
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“The Spartan peasants saw all hopes of land ownership vanish”
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“His mother and grandmother were also killed at this time.”
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“and he was executed right then and there.”
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“The corrupt ephors and Leonidas quickly pronounced him guilty of tyranny,”
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“King Agis’s reforms were thrown out before he returned to Sparta,”
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“Cleombrotus, who had been made king with Agis’s support, fled Sparta.”
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“The people’s debts had been annulled. The king was lauded for fulfilling his promise,”
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“Leonidas had acquired much wealth for himself,”
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“the king and his family had to let go of their estates as well, leading by example.”
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“yet the average Perioikoi owned no land. All that was about to change.”
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“the Perioikoi had risen to become the majority in Sparta,”
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“poverty”
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“The Spartiates (citizens of Sparta) comprised a meager seven hundred people, and six hundred of them lived in poverty.”
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“the League of Corinth died in 322 BCE, a year after Alexander the Great perished.”
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“Antipater led around forty thousand men from Macedonia to war against Sparta’s twenty-two thousand.”
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“Upon his death, his son, Alexander the Great, took the throne and set out for Asia to continue his father’s legacy.”
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“From the Battle of Chaeronea until his assassination in 336 BCE, Philip could not get Sparta to join the League”
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“brand-new league of Greek city-states under his command: the League of Corinth.”
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“City-states in Boeotia and the Peloponnese also declined to join Macedonia, but King Philip wasn’t asking nicely.”
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“one of King Philip’s advisors suggested the unification of Greece against Persia, just like old times.”
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“Philip nursed ambitions of holding influence from across the Aegean to the Persian Empire.”
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“This man was Philip, later known as King Philip II of Macedonia.”
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