Achaean League
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The Achaean League was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city-states on the northern and central Peloponnese. The league was named after the region of Achaea in the northwestern Peloponnese, wh
ACHAIA, Achaian League. Anonymous. Circa 250 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.64 g, 2h). Laureate head of Zeus right / AX monogram in wreath.
Last Day of Corinth, Tony Robert-Fleury, 1870
Sparta
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Sparta was a prominent ancient Greek polis in Laconia. In classical antiquity, the state was known as Lacedaemon, while Sparta referred to its capital, a group of villages in the valley of the Evrotas
Achaean League
…was established in 280 BC. It allied with Antigonid Macedon at the Cleomenean War, Social War and First Macedonian War against the Aetolian League and Sparta. Its most successful leader was Philopoemen who forced Sparta to join the League. The league allied with the Roman Republic during the Second Macedonian…
Eurotas River
Hollow Lacedaemon. Site of the Menelaion, the ancient shrine to Helen and Menelaus constructed in the Bronze Age city that stood on the hill of Therapne on the left bank of the Eurotas River overlooking the future site of Dorian Sparta. Across the valley the successive ridges of Mount Taygetus are in evidence.
The theatre of ancient Sparta with Mt. Taygetus in the background
Ruins of the Temple of Artemis Orthia