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Common terms and phrasesAchaean acropolis Aegean Agesilaus Agis allies Anaxandridas ancient Arcadians Argives Argos Aristotle Artemis Orthia Assembly Athenians Athens Attica battle Boeotian Bronze Age called campaign century B.C.E. citizen training city’s Classical period Cleom Cleombrotus Cleomenes command constitution Corinthian death defeat Demaratus Despite Diod Dorian early ephors Eurotas Eurotas valley Eurycles Eurypontid Eurysthenes evidence exile FGrH force fourth century Gerousia Greece Greek Hell helotage helots Heracles Heraclids Herodotus hippeis historians hoplites invasion king’s kingship Lacedaemonians Laconia land later Leonidas Leuctra Livy lochoi Lycurgan Lycurgus Lysander Lysander’s Macedonian Mantinea Messenia military Minyans Mycenaean Nabis oracle Partheniai Paus Pausanias peace Peloponnese Peloponnesian League perhaps perioeci Persian Plataea Plut Plutarch political Polyb pottery probably reign Rhetra Roman sanctuary sent seventh century sixth century slaves Spartan army Spartan citizens Spartiates Sphodrias status Taygetus territory Thebans Thebes Thuc Thucydides troops Tyrtaeus victory West2 Xenophon Bibliographic information |