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    Great Earthquake at Sparta

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    History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

    and for this they think they were themselves also visited with the great earthquake at Sparta.
    book 1

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    CimonImperial · Greek

    The devastating earthquake that struck Sparta in Archidamus's reign, destroying the city and killing many of its youth.

    When Archidamus, the son of Zeuxidamus, was in the fourth year of his reign at Sparta, a greater earthquake than any before reported rent the land of the Lacedaemonians into many chasms, shook Taygetus so that sundry peaks were torn away, and demolished the entire city with the exception of five houses.
    chapter 16
    It is said that while the young men and youths were exercising together in the interior of the colonnade, just a little before the earthquake, a hare made its appearance, and the youths, all anointed as they were, in sport dashed out and gave chase to it, but the young men remained behind, on whom the gymnasium fell, and all perished together.
    chapter 16
    For the Helots hurriedly gathered from all the country round about with intent to despatch the surviving Spartans.
    chapter 16

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    A major earthquake at Sparta which the Spartans themselves attributed to the pollution of killing Helot suppliants.

    and for this they think they were themselves also visited with the great earthquake at Sparta.
    book 1