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The patron god of Delphi was Apollo. It became so sacred to him that he ruled over it.

Sparta, is a world (city) featured in Greek Mythology. It first appears around the time it was built.

Sparta is based on the location of the same name from Greek Mythology, and the real life city.

History[]

Sparta was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.

Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars. Between 431 and 404 BC, Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, from which it emerged victorious, though at great cost of lives lost. Sparta's defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta's prominent role in Greece. However, it maintained its political independence until the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. It then underwent a long period of decline, especially in the Middle Ages, when many Spartans moved to live in Mystras. Modern Sparta is the capital of the Greek regional unit of Laconia and a center for the processing of goods such as citrus and olives.

Lacedaemon was a mythical king of Laconia. The son of Zeus by the nymph Taygete, he married Sparta, the daughter of Eurotas, by whom he became the father of Amyclas, Eurydice, and Asine. He named the country after himself and the city after his wife. 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. A shrine was erected to him in the neighborhood of Therapne.

Inhabitants[]

  • Lacedaemon
  • Taygete (formerly)
  • Sparta (mortal woman, wife of Lacedaemon)
  • Eurydice
  • Amyclas
  • Asine
  • Cleta
  • denotes the deceased


Trivia[]

On-Screen Notes[]

  • Sparta, like Delphi has quite a bit of ruins.

Appearances[]

  • Sparta had only a few kings, but the official rulers of the city, were Ares and Zeus.

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