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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sparta (Greece)
Country: Greece
NOTE: This site is 16.208 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Peloponnese Peninsula Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Spárti
Latitude: 37.081965N  Longitude: 22.423941E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Antonios : Temple of Orthias Artemis (goddess of hunt). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Peloponnese Peninsula

Famous city and enemy of Athens.

The GPS location of the site is that of the theatre ruins.
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Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Theatre (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Theatre benches (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Byzantine basilica (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Dig, shops? (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Theatre detail (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Theatre wall

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Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Inscriptions kings of Sparta

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Theatre wall

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Armand : Panel

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by durhamnature : Old excavation plan from "American School at Athens" via archive.org

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by durhamnature : Sanctuary of Artemis, from "British School at Athens" via archive.org

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by durhamnature : Sanctuary of Athena, from "British School at Athens" via archive.org

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by durhamnature : Area plan, from "British School at Athens" via archive.org (1 comment)

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by durhamnature : Artemision, from "British School at Athens" via archive.org

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by durhamnature : The Artemision from "British School at Athens" via archive.org

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by durhamnature (1 comment)

Sparta (Greece)
Sparta (Greece) submitted by Antonios : Tomb of Menelaus, husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon. After the fall of Troy Menelaus took Helen back with him but a storm at Malea brought them to Crete with most of the ships destroyed. From Crete, he went to Egypt and stayed for 5 years with king Proteus before returning to Sparta.

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Re: Sparta (Greece) by Armand on Thursday, 03 January 2019
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Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, Spártā; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, Spártē) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.

Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the leading force of the unified Greek military during the Greco-Persian Wars. Between 431 and 404 BC, Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, from which it emerged victorious, though at a great cost of lives lost. Sparta's defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta's prominent role in Greece. However, it maintained its political independence until the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. It then underwent a long period of decline, especially in the Middle Ages, when many Spartans moved to live in Mystras. Modern Sparta is the capital of the Greek regional unit of Laconia and a center for the processing of goods such as citrus and olives.

Sparta was unique in ancient Greece for its social system and constitution, which configured their entire society to maximize military proficiency at all costs, and completely focused on military training and excellence. Its inhabitants were classified as Spartiates (Spartan citizens, who enjoyed full rights), mothakes (non-Spartan free men raised as Spartans), perioikoi (free residents, literally "dwellers around"), and helots (state-owned serfs, enslaved non-Spartan local population). Spartiates underwent the rigorous agoge training and education regimen, and Spartan phalanges were widely considered to be among the best in battle. Spartan women enjoyed considerably more rights and equality to men than elsewhere in the classical antiquity.

Sparta was the subject of fascination in its own day, as well as in Western culture following the revival of classical learning. This love or admiration of Sparta is known as Laconism or Laconophilia. At its peak around 500 BC the size of the city would have been some 20,000–35,000 citizens, plus numerous helots and perioikoi. The likely total of 40,000–50,000 made Sparta one of the largest Greek cities; however, according to Thucydides, the population of Athens in 431 BC was 360,000–610,000, making it unlikely that Athens was smaller than Sparta in 5th century BC. The French classicist François Ollier in his 1933 book Le mirage spartiate ("The Spartan Mirage") warned that a major scholarly problem regarding Sparta is that all the surviving accounts were written by non-Spartans who often presented an excessively idealized image of Sparta. Ollier's views have been widely accepted by scholars.

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