Several strategy games, such as Rise of Nations, Rome: Total War, Spartan Total Warrior, Empire Earth, Civilization, Ancient Wars: Sparta, Age of Empires, Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City and Age of Mythology, feature infantry units called " Hoplites " or " Phalanx ".

A number of Ancient Greek states such as Athens and Sparta have been classified as classical republics, though this uses a definition of republic that was not developed until much later.

A form of range voting was apparently used in some elections in Ancient Sparta by measuring how loudly the crowd shouted for different candidates ; rough modern-day equivalents include the use of clapometers in some television shows and the judging processes of some athletic competitions.

Ancient Sparta minted coins from iron to discourage its citizens from engaging in foreign trade.

* GTP — Ancient Sparta

Ancient Sparta had a special type of serf-like helots.

Alcman ( also Alkman ;, gen .: Ἀλκμᾶνος ; 7th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta.

* Ancient Wars: Sparta, a real-time strategy computer game

Prominent examples include the Ancient Assyrian Empire, the Greek city state of Sparta, the Roman Empire, the Aztec nation, the Kingdom of Prussia, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( which would later become part of the Soviet Union ), the Italian Colonial Empire during the reign of Benito Mussolini, Nazi Germany and American Imperialism.

In certain states in Ancient Greece, such as Sparta and Crete, adolescent boys were expected to enter into a mentoring relationship with an adult man, in which they would be taught skills pertaining to adult life, such as hunting, martial arts, and fine arts.

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The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League ( led by Sparta ) and the Delian League ( led by Athens ).

This attitude can be seen as paralleled by the training expected by the Ancient Greek city state of Sparta.

The GdE was a sort of scouting movement that echoed the warrior creed of Sparta and the ideals of pederasty in Ancient Greece, and the ideas on pedagogic eros of Gustav Wyneken.

Morpho menelaus was named in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus ( as Papilio menelaus ) to honour the Greek mythological figure Menelaus, a king of Ancient Sparta.

The Apella () was the popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.

It was also found in Sparta with two Kings, San Marino with two Captains Regent, the ancient Roman Empire ( by determination of Hadrian ) and the Byzantine Empire, Ancient Egypt and Nubia, in these cases as a balance between King and Queen, male and female.

Archidamus III ( Ancient Greek: Αρχίδαμος ), the son of Agesilaus II, was king of Sparta from 360 BC to 338 BC.

Phillip's phalangites were the first force of professional soldiers seen in Ancient Greece apart from Sparta.

* The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta, by Nicholas Nicastro ( 2005 )

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Finlay chose the name " Little Sparta " in 1983, in response to Edinburgh's nickname, the " Athens of the North ", and playing on the historical rivalry between the Ancient Greek cities Athens and Sparta.

For instance, Ancient Sparta minted coins from iron to discourage its citizens from engaging in foreign trade.

An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced when short and when long.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

Assault in Ancient Greece was normally termed hubris.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

Lysander and the young Agesilaus came to maintain an intimate relation ( see Pederasty in Ancient Greece ), as was common of the period.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

In 1989 the first part of his On Aristotle Metaphysics was published as part of the Ancient commentators project.

Merlin was an Ancient, fleeing from Atlantis and later Ascends, then comes back in order build the Sangraal, or Holy Grail, to defeat the Ori.

Andocides or Andokides (, 440 – 390 BC ) was a logographer ( speech writer ) in Ancient Greece.

The building was burned and looted, along with the Ancient Temple and practically everything else on the rock.

Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined, but it afterwards was sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean.

The English name " accusative ( case )" is an Anglicisation of the Latin accūsātīvus ( cāsus ), which was translated from Ancient Greek.

In Ancient Greek, there was no ablative case ; its functions were taken by the genitive, so that the genitive had functions belonging to the Proto-Indo-European genitive and ablative cases.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.