The Trojan War, fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age, has grabbed the imagination for millennia.
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Between 431 and 404 BC, Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, from which it emerged victorious, though at great cost of lives lost. Sparta's defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta's prominent role in Greece. However, it maintained its political independence until the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. It then underwent a long period of decline, especially in the Middle Ages, when many Spartans moved to live in Mystras.
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In 1904, the British School at Athens began a thorough exploration of Laconia, and in the following year excavations were made at Thalamae, Geronthrae, and Angelona near Monemvasia. In 1906, excavations began in Sparta.
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After Philip II's death, Sparta joined a rebellion against Macedon and took a leading role, with their king at the head of a Greek army drawn from numerous allied city-states. However, the allied army fell before a larger and better organized Macedonian army, so Sparta grudgingly accepted Macedonian hegemony.
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Origins of the War. The main source for our knowledge of the Trojan War is Homer’s Iliad (written sometime in the 8th century BCE) where he recounts 53 days during the final year of the ten year conflict. The Greeks imagined the war to have occurred some time in the 13th century BCE.
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No one knows when Sparta was founded and it still exists today. If you are referring to Sparta's rise and fall as an ancient power - the Spartan Army already had a reputation as one of the Peloponnese's finest armies by c. 500 BC, largely on account of its victories in the Second Messenian War.
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In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (/ˌlæsəˈdiːmən/; λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.
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Well the country of Sparta no longer exist's but the capital still does, the country of Sparta was around until the year 1834 when a war between Sparta and Greece ended up wit…h Sparta being absorbed by the rest of Greece (MORE) 7 people found this useful.
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This love or admiration of Sparta is known as Laconism or Laconophilia. At its peak around 500 BC the size of the city would have been some 20,000 – 35,000 free residents, plus numerous helots and perioikoi (“dwellers around”).
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No one knows when Sparta was founded and it still exists today.<br /><br /> If you are referring to Sparta's rise and fall as an ancient power - the Spartan Army already had a reputation as one of the Peloponnese's finest armies by c. 500 BC, largely on account of its victories in the Second Messenian War.
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what years did sparta exist?
Sparta exist between 431 and 404 BC. Sparta existed between 431 and 404 BEFORE Jesus.