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The history of Sparta describes the history of the ancient Doric Greek city-state known as Sparta from its beginning in the legendary period to its incorporation into the Achaean League under the late Roman Republic, as Allied State, in 146 BC, a period of roughly 1000 years.
20 sie 2024 · Sparta, ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece. The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the 6th to the 2nd century BCE.
10 lis 2019 · In 195 BCE, the commander of the Roman army in Greece Titus Quinctius Flamininus convened a meeting of representatives of Greek states to Corinth to discuss the eventual war with Sparta. Traditional allies of Rome – Rhodes and Pergamon as well as the Ethol, Achaean, Thessaly and Macedonia participated in the talks.
1 dzień temu · The Roman Empire was an international political system in which Italy was only a part, though an important part. When the empire fell, a series of barbarian kingdoms initially ruled the peninsula, but, after the Lombard invasion of 568–569, a network of smaller political entities arose throughout Italy.
On the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in Italy, a Thracian slave led a rebellion that would challenge the might of Rome. Spartacus quickly became the embodiment of defiance and the struggle for freedom against unjust power, even in the face of unsurmountable odds.
7 sie 2019 · The history of Italy is characterized by two periods of unity—the Roman Empire (27 BCE–476 CE) and the modern democratic republic formed after the end of World War II. Between those two periods may have been a millennium and a half of division and disruption, but that disruption saw one of the world's great flowering of art, the Renaissance ...
14 paź 2009 · Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of...
