At other times, Sparta engaged in disputes with its rival Greek city-states, especially Athens and Thebes. Slave rebellions had to be nipped in the bud—the Helots, conquered peoples enslaved by ...

like Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Olympia. Each city-state ruled itself. They had their own governments, laws and army. Someone living in Sparta would call themselves Spartan first, and Greek ...

A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC ... spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world. However, Sparta's dominance was ...

Three years later negotiations, led by Aristides of Athens ... city-states, apart from Athens, were the founders of the League. We do know that within a few years, almost all of the Ionian Greek ...

Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese in Greece, Sparta was a warrior society where males aged ...