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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.’

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