* Data for the Sparta Township Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics

* Sparta Education Foundation Website

Education in the agoge served as a great equalizer in Sparta.

* Foundation of Sparta.

The Festival of Hyacinthus was a celebration of Sparta.

In the legends of the Peloponnesus, Agamemnon was regarded as the highest type of a powerful monarch, and in Sparta he was worshipped under the title of Zeus Agamemnon.

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.

Therefore, Agesilaus was trained in the traditional curriculum of Sparta, the agoge.

In 394 BC, while encamped on the plain of Thebe, he was planning a campaign in the interior, or even an attack on Artaxerxes II himself, when he was recalled to Greece owing to the war between Sparta and the combined forces of Athens, Thebes, Corinth, Argos and several minor states.

Pausanias, the second king of Sparta ( see Spartan Constitution for more information on Sparta's dual monarchy ), was supposed to provide Lysander with reinforcements as they marched into Boeotia, yet failed to arrive in time to assist Lysander, likely because Pausanias disliked him for his brash and arrogant attitude towards the Spartan royalty and government.

Pausanias failed to fight for the bodies of the dead, and because he retrieved the bodies under truce ( a sign of defeat ), he was disgraced and banished from Sparta.

The Battle of Mantinea, in which Agesilaus took no part, was followed by a general peace: Sparta, however, stood aloof, hoping even yet to recover her supremacy.

His body was embalmed in wax, and buried at Sparta.

After the King's Peace 387 BC, Sparta was anxious to re-establish its presence in the north of Greece.

That Olynthus was backed by Athens and Thebes, rivals to Sparta for the control of Greece, provided them with an additional incentive to break up this growing power in the north.

Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.

In 391 BC he was one of the ambassadors sent to Sparta to discuss peace terms, but the negotiations failed.

After Byzantion, Sparta was eager to end its involvement in the war.

She called to Sparta for assistance but was denied, as Sparta was facing the largest helot revolution in its history.

An aftermath of the war was that Cimon was ostracised, and the relations between Athens and Sparta turned hostile.

In Sparta, Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical strength and military intelligence was unrivaled.

* The Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady, later Sparta Prague, is founded.

The latter defines Sparta to be Lacedaemonia Civitas but Isidore defines Lacedaemonia as founded by Lacedaemon, son of Semele, relying on Eusebius.

Taranto was founded in 706 BC by Dorian Greek immigrants as the only Spartan colony, and its origin is peculiar: the founders were Partheniae (" sons of virgins "), sons of unmarried Spartan women and Perioeci ( free men, but not citizens of Sparta ); these out-of-wedlock unions were permitted extraordinarily by the Spartans to increase the prospective number of soldiers ( only the citizens of Sparta could become soldiers ) during the bloody Messenian wars, but later they were retroactively nullified, and the sons were then obliged to leave Greece forever.

On 1 April 1888 several students from Rotterdam founded a cricket club called Sparta.

Previously, in 550 BC, a similar league between the cities of the Peloponnessus — directed and dominated by Sparta — had been founded.

The city was founded in 371 BC by the Theban general Epaminondas in an attempt to form a political counterweight to Sparta.

Gylippus (; was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC ; he was the son of Cleandridas, who was the adviser of King Pleistoanax and had been expelled from Sparta for accepting Athenian bribes in 446 BC and fled to Thurii, a pan-Hellenic colony then being founded in the instep of Italy with Athenian help and participation.

They went to the pub following a match between AC Sparta and SK Slavia and decided it was time their own town founded a professional club.

The Spartans believed they were descended from Heracles, and in 427 or 426, Sparta founded a colony in Trachis called Heraclea.

Here Prince Lysander of Sparta, a planet founded with certain political ideals by the Constitutional Society, comes to learn about Falkenberg.

When Laius the rightful king of Thebes returned, he was exiled and fled to Sparta, where some say he founded Amyclae.

( Sparta, NJ: Trupower Press, 2006 ).

The traditional story relates that Pheidippides ( 530 BC – 490 BC ), an Athenian herald or hemerodrome ( translated as " day-runner " ( Kyle 2007 ), courier ( Larcher 1806 ), " professional-running courier " ( Sears 2003 ) or " day-long runner " ( Miller 2006 )), was sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon, Greece.

In July 2002, he returned to his homeland, signing with Sparta Prague, retiring at his first club ( which he had rejoined in January 2006, helping it achieve promotion to the Czech 2.

** 2006: Angels & Airwaves, Pete Yorn, Sparta, Conner, Josephine Collective.

Brillant played for the Virginia Beach Mariners in the USL First Division in 2005 and 2006, and then played midfield for Sparta Sarpsborg of the Adeccoligaen in 2007.

His new contract tied him to Sparta until June 2006.

Wearing number five, he again had to spend time on the substitutes bench to begin with, but impressed sufficiently in brief appearances against Ajax and Sparta Rotterdam to be brought on at half-time against ADO Den Haag on 22 January 2006.

In season 2005 / 2006 Slovan recovered to achieve their second league title, confirmed their status as the leading Czech team outside of Prague and broke the dominance of Sparta and Slavia.

* How Many More Times split with Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta ( Fire Records Keep Mother series G – H August 2006

He scored his first goal for Feyenoord Rotterdam in the match against Sparta Rotterdam on 23 December 2006.

Jurek repeated his Badwater victory in 2006, a year that also saw his first of three consecutive victories in the Spartathlon, a 153-mile race between Athens and Sparta in Greece.

In 2006 he returned to Sparta Prague and is playing there to date as a backbone of team's defence.