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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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