This city was legendarily reformed by a lawgiver named Lycurgus.
This polity was led by the Agiad monarch Cleombrotus I when it lost to Epaminondas and the Theban Sacred Band at the Battle of Leuctra. This city was legendarily reformed by a lawgiver named Lycurgus. This city's economy was built on subjugated peasants called helots. Its general Lysander destroyed a fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami during the Peloponnesian War, which it fought against Athens. For 10 points, name this Greek polis which held off an army of Persians with 300 men at Thermopylae.
This polity was led by the Agiad monarch Cleombrotus I when it lost to Epaminondas and the Theban Sacred Band at the Battle of Leuctra.
Sparta