Sparta and Corinth

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1Sparta and CorinthCivilization, GRK 10212 CommentsSpartaLittle to say on women either placeProstabilityaggressive militaryLocal autonomy was granted to nearby statesaggConcruelty to infants, to helotsmilitaristiccontrolling aristocracyimperialistcontinually trying to expand there bordersCorinthProwealthport, more workConunstable politics, tyranny34

SpartaCorinth45

56Linguistic, Historical, Cultural NotesDialect: Attic they sayDialect: Doricstandard Doric Laconian (Spartan) h they sayKorinthos aphneiosrich CorinthSparta, Lakedaimonearly archaic periodcultural centerpost-Messenian WarsLycurgan constitution67

Corinth and the Isthmus78Corinth: Temple of Apollo

89Corinth: Acrocorinth

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Protocorinthian Aryballos, ca. 720690 BCE1011Plan of Ancient Sparta

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Sparta: View from Meneleum1213Suppose the city of Sparta to be deserted, and nothing left but the temples and ground plan: distant ages would be very unwilling to believe that the power of the Spartans was at all equal to their fame.Thucydides13