Sparta
“Lacedaemon”
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also in the atlas: Sparta the place
Lacedaemon · the Lacedaemonians · the Spartans
in the texts
Stromata
Sparta and the Spartans, referenced repeatedly in connection with Lycurgus's lawgiving and the dating of early Greek sages.
And Apollodorus says it was a hundred years after the Ionian colony, when Agesilaus the son of Doryssaeus reigned over the Spartans, so that Lycurgus the lawgiver, still a young man, overlapped with him.
So those who prophesied in the time of Darius the son of Hystaspes, in the second year of his reign — Aggaeus and Zacharias and the Messenger among the Twelve, who prophesied in the first year of the forty-eighth Olympiad — are shown to be older than Pythagoras, who is placed about the sixty-second Olympiad, and than the oldest of the sages among the Greeks, Thales, who lived about the fiftieth Olympiad.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The city-state of Sparta and its citizen body, leading the Peloponnesian League, which resolves after the Sicilian disaster to press the war and court Persian support.
The Lacedaemonians also issued to the states a requisition for building a hundred ships, fixing their own quota and that of the Boeotians at five and twenty each;
and when he brought them word back that what they heard was true, they straightway took the Chians and Erythraeans into alliance, and resolved to send them forty ships, as there were already there (according to the statement of the Chians) not less than sixty.
The Lacedaemonians, however, acceded with a very decided preference to the application of the Chians and Tissaphernes.