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Episode 10: Grave Concerns at Sparta (1.65-70)

Herodotus plays tour guide/ethnographer and gives us a glimpse of the land of Lydia and its people. But should we believe him?

We get a look at how Sparta became the militarized city-state that we know and love(??), and Croesus picks his Greek ally.





A map of the Peloponnese, highlighting the cities of Sparta and Tegea and the regions of Laconia, Messenia and Arcadia

Episode 10: Grave Concerns at Sparta (1.65-70)
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