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(Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)(Tom: The women of this city-state, the most powerful in Greece around 400 B.C., were as tough as the men.)(Dominic: Plutarch reports that her mother would tell her son to come back from war carrying hisshieldor dead on top of it) |
Sparta
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J |
THE REST IS HISTORY |
2025-01-29 |
#9258 |
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Around 630 B.C. this militaristic city-state basically turned Messenia's people into serfs |
Sparta
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$400 |
J |
ACROSS HISTORY |
2022-07-26 |
#8692 |
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Protected on 3 sides by mountains, this Greek city-state not big on luxury was on the bank of the Eurotas River |
Sparta
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$400 |
DJ |
C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! |
2019-12-16 |
#8116 |
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Growing up in this militaristic ancient Greek city-state might include the diamastigosis, or flogging ordeal |
Sparta
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$1,200 |
DJ |
HISTORY |
2014-01-21 |
#6757 |
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Lysander of this rival Greek city defeated Athens in 404 B.C. & established the government of the 30 tyrants over it |
Sparta
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$400 |
DJ |
ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. |
2011-06-29 |
#6183 |
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Also called Lacedaemon, this once powerful Greek city-state was destroyed by the Visigoths in 396 |
Sparta
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$600 |
DJ |
HISTORY |
1994-11-01 |
#2337 |
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Military state that conquered Laconia & Messenia |
Sparta
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$300 |
J |
HISTORIC GREECE |
1994-05-31 |
#2257 |