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Laconia in
ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was
known as
Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn),
while the name
Sparta referred to its main settlement...
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Lacedaemon (/læsɪˈdiːmən/;
Ancient Gr****: Λακεδαίμων Lakedaímōn) or
Lacaedemon was the
eponymous king of
Lacedaemon (i.e. Sparta) in
classical Gr**** mythology...
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later on
became the
queen of Argos.
Eurydice was the
daughter of King
Lacedaemon and
Queen Sparta, the
legendary founders of
Sparta and thus
sister to...
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mentions the
response of the
commander of the Ten Thousand, "But men of
Lacedaemon, we are the same men now as we were last year; but the
commander now is...
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Pausanias also
describes Tiasa as
being Eurotas's daughter. By her husband,
Lacedaemon,
Sparta became the
mother of
Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius...
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Peloponnesian League, the
alliance network dominated by
Sparta (then
known as
Lacedaemon). The Long
Walls of
Athens rendered this
strategy ineffective,
while the...
- The
Diocese of
Lacedaemon o
Lacedaemonia (Gr****: Μητρόπολις Λακεδαίμονος/Λακεδαιμονίας) was a
Christian ecclesiastical province in Laconia, Greece. Extant...
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Sosylus of
Lacedaemon (Gr****: Σωσύλος) was a Gr****
historian in the 3rd
century BC. He
would campaign alongside Hannibal throughout the
Second Punic War...
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Hyacinthus (Ancient Gr****: Ὑάκινθος) was a
Lacedaemonian who is said to have
moved to Athens. In
compliance with an oracle, to have...
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kingdom to
Lacedaemon, the son of Zeus and Taygete,
after whom
Mount Taygetus was named,
according to Pausanias. This
Lacedaemon married his daughter...
