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    Schrader (11 July 2010). "Sparta Reconsidered—Spartan Women". Elysiumgates.com. Retrieved 2011-08-10. Plutarch 2004, p. 457. Pausanias, 6.1.6 Millender, Ellen...
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  • in Sparta, where he even schemed to become king. In 403 the two kings, Agis and Pausanias, acted together to relieve him from his command. Agis II died...
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    fleet led by Pausanias, the victor of Plataea, mounted moves on Cyprus and Byzantium. However, his arrogant behavior forced his recall. Pausanias had so alienated...
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    curious fate is recounted by Pausanias the geographer (3.19.11–13), which has Helen share the afterlife with Achilles. Pausanias also has another story (3...
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    Schol.ad.Theocr. ii 12 άγγελος Nillson, "Geschichte", Vol I, p.315-317 Pausanias 8.23.4 Pausanias 2.30.3 Strabo Geographica vp 239 Pausanias 2.27.4 Heshych :...
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  • Sacred Band of Thebes (category Philip II of Macedon)
    University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83705-7. Pausanias. "Book IX". Description of Greece. Susan Guettel Cole (1995). "Pausanias and the Polis: Use and Abuse". In...
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    army's offensive into Greece, an alliance of Greek city-states was led by Sparta to block off Thermopylae. After three days of fighting, the Spartan king...
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    Herodotus VIII, 73. Herodotus VII, 94. Pausanias VII, 1. Herodotus I, 143–147. Pausanias VII, 1.7. Pausanias VII, 1.3. Balmuth, Miriam S.; Tykot, Robert...
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  • Ephor (category Government of Sparta)
    written by the Agiad king Pausanias after he had been forced to abdicate and go into exile in 394 BCE. In this logos, Pausanias likely published Lycurgus'...
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    Battle of Leuctra (category Battles involving Sparta)
    "the Boeotians", but one of the Spartan kings, Agesilaus II, would not allow it.) In this, Sparta saw an opportunity to reassert its shaky authority in central...
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    66. Pausanias, 1.28.11. Pausanias, 8.15.7 Apollodorus, Epitome 6.12 Apollodorus, Epitome 6.13. Apollodorus, Epitome 6.14. Plutarch, 23. Pausanias, 1.28...
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    at the Illyrians' hands ..." ^ b: Although Pausanias, the 2nd century AD geographer, claimed that Sparta was expelled from the Amphictyonic council for...
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    Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones...
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    Areus I (category Agiad kings of Sparta)
    official support, such as in 303, when Sparta sent him to help Tarentum against Lucanians and the Roman Republic. Pausanias further tells that Cleonymus was...
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    city-states of Athens, Sparta and Thebes, and briefly subordinate to Achaemenid Persia. During the reign of the Argead king Philip II (359–336 BC), Macedonia...
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    Greco-Persian Wars (category Wars involving Sparta)
    regent Pausanias, stayed on high ground above Plataea to protect themselves against such tactics. After several days of maneuver and stalemate, Pausanias ordered...
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  • original on 14 April 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024. Pausanias. Description of Greece. ix.16 § 1. Pausanias. Description of Greece. iii.18 § 2. Ring, Trudy;...
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    πτόρθιος. "ἲππειος". Nilsson Vol I p.448 Pausanias 8.37.9–10 "Pausanias 8.10.3". "Pausanias 1.30.4". "Δαμαῖος". "Pausanias 3.14.2". "Ἱπποκούριος". "Πετραῖος"...
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    Dorians (section Pausanias)
    ornate style in art and architecture, to the isolationist, military state of Sparta; and yet, all Hellenes knew which localities were Dorian and which were...
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    Routledge. pp. 105-116. ISBN 978-0-415-96823-2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.34.10, 3.14.6, 6.24.6 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.18.6 Strabo, Geography...
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    man, in my judgement, of Greece," and Pausanias records an honorary poem from his tomb: By my counsels was Sparta shorn of her glory,   And holy Messene...
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    mythology, Pelasga Pausanias 3.15.7 Farnell Cults I, p.247 Hesch. "Thelxinia Hera is honoured by the Athenians" Θεομήτωρ Pausanias 5.15.5 Pausanias 6.13.1 λευκωλενος...
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  • Black soup (category Culture of Sparta)
    Black soup was a regional cuisine of ancient Sparta, made with boiled pork meat and blood, using only salt and vinegar to flavour. The soup was well known...
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    870f Pausanias, 1.31.1 Pausanias, 1.44.2 Pausanias, 9.20.1 Pausanias, 9.22.1 Pausanias, 10.19.4 Pausanias, 10.35.4 Pausanias, 10.37.8 Pausanias, 2.21...
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    Harrison 1991, p. 609. Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.11.1 Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.20.4 Nagy, p. 100 n. 70 Pausanias, Description of Greece...
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    Theban–Spartan War (category Wars involving Sparta)
    University Press. ISBN 9780521837057. Pausanias. "Book IX". Description of Greece. Susan Guettel Cole (1995). "Pausanias and the Polis: Use and Abuse". In...
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    behaviour of the Spartan general Pausanias alienated many of the Allies, and resulted in Pausanias's recall. After Byzantion, Sparta was eager to end its involvement...
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    144. Pausanias, iii.3.6; see Christian Jacob and Anne Mullen-Hohl, "The Greek Traveler's Areas of Knowledge: Myths and Other Discourses in Pausanias' Description...
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    p. 416. Farnell 1909, p. 417. Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.12.1 Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.34.3 Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.37.2...
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    παιών κλάρος Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.32.2 Μουσαγέτας in Liddell and Scott. Homer, Odyssey 17.494 See ἀκερσεκόμης Pausanias, Description of...
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