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Sparta

One of the city states of ancient Greece, Sparta was well known for its warrior culture.

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Who was Helen wills?

She is a famous tennis player during 1920s.

Did Sparta girls practice sports and were trained to be strong mothers with strong children or Athens?

Sparta. Spartan women were somewhat unique in ancient Greece for their engagement in exercise and for wearing relatively short tunics that showed their legs. Some scholars speculate that their fitness contributed to their reputation for being among the most beautiful women of antiquity. Women in Sparta were also responsible for the management of the estates as men were busy training and fighting most of the time. (This mainly applies to the Spartan upper class.) Finally Spartan women were expected to place the Spartan state above all else, including their own maternalism. Spartan women gave up their children at a tender age (prepubescent) to state run military training, and were expected to celebrate, rather than grieve, the noble death of their children in battle.

All that said, i would not want to over-state the aspects of gender equality in Sparta or anywhere in ancient Greece; for the most part it was an exceedingly patriarchal, and male dominated society. Relative to Athens, however, Spartan women enjoyed a much greater latitude of personal freedom and responsibility (many Athenian women of the upper class could not leave their homes unacompanied by male relatives).

Is the king in the movie '300' a tragic hero?

Yes, the king in the movie "300" is a tragic hero.

Specifically, a hero is a person who does great deeds or has great powers. He is tragic when his life takes an unfortunate turn. The position description fits Spartan King Leonidas (540s B.C.E. - August 9, 480 B.C.E.). Ancient Greece is being invaded by the Persians. He leads a vastly outnumbered army to a valiant but suicidal battle as a delaying tactic to give all Greece time to unite, arm and defeat the Persians.

How do you make a Sparta remix?

open Windows Movie Maker.put the song "Sparta Remix Instrumental"then add and shorten a screen to the phrase you want (must be a maximum of 2 letters) then select and shorten(again still must be a maximum of 2 letters)then put them(must be a word) put them in a bit fast of 15 and then put the 2 phrases again(add subtitles whenever you like) then later you put OMG TEH EPICNESS(those still go)make sure theyre fitting.if you think its good,save.if you have a youtube acaount.upload if you want.

What is the difference between Ithaca and Sparta?

1. Ithaca is practically now an island, Sparta was on the continent.

2. Sparta was more important than Ithaca in the history.

3. The population of Sparta is greater.

Why might Sparta have decided to spare Athens after Athens was defeated?

Because Athens is weak and cowardly & took their money.For an answer that makes sense, Athens was still a leading city, and favorite of the goddess Athena. To wipe it off the map, as might have been done with a lesser city, was probably considered inadvisable for political and religious reasons. If Athens had won the war, as it nearly did in the first ten years, Sparta might have met the standard fate of a conquered city (death for all men, slavery for all women and children, city destroyed), but the world will never know.

They should of killed or destroyed it But then they wouldn't help them when a battle came

The person who answered the question before this just annoys me with how critical they are being... then again, they are pretty straight forward and, well, truthful.

Why does Spartans use shields?

they use them to keep the other spartans safe.

What would have been the effect on history if King Leonidas and the 300 of Sparta had not held off the Persians?

None whatsoever. It did not affect the outcome of the war in any way.

It provided an apocrophal story of sacrifice for later generations to the present day.

What is the government control of daily life in Sparta and Athens?

They were democracies, so the government responded to th citizens.

What was the difference in the type of ruling Sparta and Athens?

While Athenians revered politics and public services, and found participating in either an honor, the Spartans were the exact opposite. Spartans would say that the only worthy public service is serving your country is in the military. Spartans left the majority of running the government to ephors. Men to old or to maimed to be of any help in the military, men that had a son killed were also included in this group (if they couldn't lie their way out of it). This difference can all be seen in one defining fact; Spartans not only let their helots participate in the government but gave them a level of power that the Athenians usually left for only some of the more respected citizens of Athens. Also should be mentioned the word laconic directly applies to the spartan way of public speaking, something they detested.

Who were the kings of Sparta during the Peloponnesian War?

Agiad Dynasty: Pleistonax to 409 BCE then Pausanias

Eurypontid Dynasty: Archidamus II to 429 BCE then Agis II.

Helen queen of Sparta 's nick names?

In Greece is known not as Hellen of Sparta/Troy but as ''η ωραία Ελένη'' meaning ''the beautifull Helen''

What would a Spartan father tell his son to do with his shield after battle?

I suppose to clean and repair it. There is a story that before battle, Spartan mothers told their sons to either come back victorious or come back carried on their shield.
{Spartan mothers would give their sons the shield with the words "Return with it or carried on it!" }

How did Sparta solve the problem of land-hunger?

They conquered the rich region of Messene in 715 B.C. They made the Messenians state slaves

How did Spartan wives cope when husbands and sons left for war?

  • A Spartan is a person from the Greek city Sparta or the ancient Greek city-state of the same name.
  • Spartan wives started working to replace their husbands and sons and to help them while in war by providing war stuff and food.

How many miles did Jews travel from Jerusalem to Greece?

That would depend on if the went by sea or by land. By sea, it would be about 750 miles (675 nautical miles). By land, the journey is about 1800 miles.

What formation is responsible for rock gypsum?

Gypsum is formed underwater, usually between layers of shale and limestone. When the water evaporates and the area dries, the gypsum becomes solid "rock" gypsum.

What was the effect of Pericles' plan to protect Athens from Sparta with the use of a large wall?

Pericles (ca 490-429 BC) is the most famous statesman of Athens. His years of leadership eventually came to be labeled "Periclean Athens" to represent how he dominated politics, the arts, and how he effectively turned the Athenian empire into the richest and most powerful state in Greece. He was born to a rich and famous father Xanthippus, who was the victor over the Persian fleet at Mycale, the final battle of the Persian Wars. His mother was a niece of the famous Athenian Cleisthenes who was the leader of the Alcmeonidae, one of the most powerful families in Athens. Cleisthenes is responsible for removing the tyrant Hippias from Athens in 508 BC and then reformed their constitution. So Pericles came from a powerful background.

Pericles came to power in Athens based mostly on his wits and his oratory. He was a Strategos and lead Athenian armies to victories, notably at Sicyon, and he fought alongside his political enemy Cimon at Tanagra. At one time Athenian armies held large parts of Boeotian territory. Eventually the Athenians could not hold onto their land gains in Greece and Pericles made peace and redirected his efforts to naval domination of the Aegean. His policies turned the Delian League formed against Persia into an Athenian "Thalassocracy" (Sea Empire). The Athenians built their long walls from Athens to the port of Piraeus and decided to rest their major strategy in war on Naval power. When the 2nd Peloponnesian War broke out between the Athenian Empire and a fearful Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes, Pericles trusted in a strategy of attrition against the enemies on land, and naval domination on sea.

Neither the Spartans or the Athenians understood the war that they started in 431 BC, or that it would drag on for 27 years and bleed Greece dry, and rage over lands as far away as Sicily to the shores of the Bosphorus. The Spartans invaded Attica and ravaged the farms as the Athenians from the countryside huddled inside the long walls to Piraeus. Athenian fleets raided the coast of Sparta with impunity, but could not goad the Messenians or allies to rebel from Sparta. The Spartan army was unstoppable but the Athenian cavalry harassed the raiders as they spread out to ineffectively destroy Athenian farmlands. The Athenian fleet prevented any assault on Athens, and kept the food flowing in. In effect the war was a stalemate.

After a number of invasions the worst happened to Athens delaying strategy as the city was hit by plague as the huddled masses were crammed into the open spaces between the walls. Pericles lost two sons and a sister to the plague, then succumbed himself to the disease. His greatest moments are remembered by Thucydides in his great funeral oration, where his commentary on war and sacrifice is still one of the great discourses on the subject of how people bury their dead in war and resonates today as effectively as 2400 years ago. Sadly there are few great orators today of the likes of Pericles.

Pericles' death actually gained the Athenians some success in the war, as the new crop of leaders were more aggressive in carrying the war to Sparta. Eventually these successes caused the Athenians to pursue the grandiose plan to conquer Sicily. The disaster there led ultimately to the end of the Athenian Empire.

The military organisation of the rozvi state?

The king was the commander in chief of the army.they aiso introduced the cowhorn formation.women went to war.they used arrows,spears,clubs.

Is there proof that Sparta is real?

What kind of a question is that!?Try telling it to the inhabitants of modern Sparta that they don't actually exist.

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Yes there is ancient acropolis in Sparta,temple of Arthemis Orthia, Menelaion,graves etc