300 20 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT SPARTA
1 PACK a suitcase and set off to visit Sparta today, and you’re in for a disappointment. Because the City State was closed down for good in 192 BC by the Achaean League. And you can’t visit that, either, because that was shut down by the Roman Empire 46 years later.
was unusual because it was ruled by two monarchs… The Agiad and Eurypontid families both provided kings who ruled in tandem with shared duties. One, for instance, would deliver a Christmas Day message to the Spartan people whilst the other opened the Spartan parliament. When chatting to a member
