Sparta (TRIH ep 82)
480 BCE · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Sparta: its origins, social structure, myths, and lasting reputation. Holland outlines Spartan geography, the conquest of Messenia, the establishment of helotage, and the Lycurgan-inspired militarised constitution that produced the agoge and the Krypteia.
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Around 480 BCE
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)