The SpartansPaul Cartledge
AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus
University of Cambridge
Greece
Sparta - Prof Paul Cartledge 2From Levi, Atlas of the Greek World
The Peloponnese
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From Levi, Atlas of the Greek World
From Levi, Atlas of the Greek World
Taygetus
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Hoplite and Heracles
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Dancing/running girl
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Vix krater
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'Leonidas' marble - Spartan acropolis
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'Leonidas’at Thermopylae
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David’s Leonidas
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Spartan shield, 425 BCE
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From The Athenian Agora Vol XIV, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1972, edd. HA Thompson and RE Wycherley.
Kyniska inscription, 396 BCE
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‘Kings of Sparta are my father and brothersKyniska, victorious with a chariot of swift-footed horses,have erected this statue. I declare myself the only womanin all Hellas to have won this crown.’