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Lacedaemon, or Lakedaimon, Grk. Λακεδαιμων or Λακεδαιμωνία, in historical times, was the proper name of the Spartan state as used by Thucydides in his histories. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Sparta (Doric: Spártā, Attic: SpártÄ“) is a city in southern Greece. ... Greek ( IPA: or IPA: — Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of 3,500 years, the longest of any single language in that language family. ... Bust of Thucydides residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. ...

Homer and Herodotus use only the former, and in some passages seems to denote by it the Achaean citadel, the Therapnae of later times, in contrast to the lower town Sparta. Lacedaemon is now the name of a province in the prefecture of Laconia. Homer (Greek: , ) was an early Greek poet and aoidos (rhapsode) traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Sparta (Doric: Spártā, Attic: SpártÄ“) is a city in southern Greece. ... Here are a lists of the provinces (Greek: επαρχεία, eparcheia fr. ... Laconia (; see also List of traditional Greek place names), also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. ...

The Lakedaimonians were the only Greek-speaking people to employ a full-time army in ancient Greece. Their state institutions and system of education were designed for the purpose of creating superbly-trained soldiers. As one historian has said, the Spartans were essentially a full-time army disguised as a city-state.

The Spartans used the red Greek capital letter, lambda (Λ) (displayed on their shields) as an identification as the people of Lacedaemon, their home city-state or polis.

In Greek mythology, Lacedaemon was a son of Zeus by Taygete, and was married to Sparta the daughter of Eurotas, by whom he became the father of Amyclas, Eurydice, and Asine. He was king of the country which he called after his own name, Lacedaemon, while he gave to his capital the name of his wife, Sparta. He was believed to have built the sanctuary of the Charites, which stood between Sparta and Amyclae, and to have given to those divinities the names of Cleta and Phaenna. An heroum was erected to him in the neighborhood of Therapne. The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ... The Statue of Zeus at Olympia Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in Ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th century engraving Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Zeús, genitive: Diós), is... In Greek mythology, Taygete (Greek: Ταϋγέτη, in Modern Greek Taygeti, Taigeti) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to Apollodorus (3. ... In Greek mythology, Sparta was the daughter of Eurotas by Clete. ... In Greek mythology, Eurotas was a son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. ... In Greek mythology, there were two persons that had the name Amyclas: Amyclas was the son of Lacedemon and Sparta, and he was the brother of Eurydice (no relation to Orpheus Eurydice). ... In Greek mythology, there were several characters named Eurydice (Eurydíkê, Ευρυδίκη). // The most famous was a woman — or a nymph — who was the wife of Orpheus. ... This page refers to ancient Asine of Argolis. ... Sparta (Doric: Spártā, Attic: Spártē) is a city in southern Greece. ... For the game of graces, see Game of graces. ... // Historical population Amykles or Amikles (Greek: Αμύκλες, older form, polytonic: Ἀμύκλαι, monotonic: Αμύκλαι), older forms: Amyklai, Amykle, Amiklai and Amikle, Latin: Amyclae, is a village and an archaeological site located southwest of Sparta. ... The Three Graces, from Sandro Botticellis painting Primavera Uffizi Gallery In Greek mythology, the Charites were the graces. ...

Coordinates: 37°04′N, 22°26′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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