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  1. Dec 2020
  2. Feb 2017
  3. Mar 2014
    1. It was in the reign of Cleomenes that Aristagoras the tyrant of Miletus came to Sparta.

      Hdt. 5.49 Aristagaros comes to Sparta to speak with Kleomenes to convince the Spartans to join in his revolt against Darius and the Achaemenids. He brings his famous world map as a prop and visual aid.

  4. Feb 2014
    1. So he carried off Helen

      1.3. Alexander (Paris), son of Priam, king of Troy, abducts Helen, wife of Menelaus, from Sparta. Other authors were less certain about Helen's lack of complicity.