Lacedaemon
Lacedaemon, or Lakedaimon, Grk. ?????????? or ???????????? in historical times, was an alternative name of Sparta, in the Classical period the chief polis of Laconia.
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Sparta - Classical - Polis - Laconia
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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 separate department, which had in 1907 a population of 87,106.
Related Topics:
Homer - Herodotus - Sparta
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