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How to portray a Spartan king from the classical era?
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The ram was ascociated with apollo but northen Greeks and skythians asociated it with the gods of war.

In the geometric/archaic period when the tribal links were stronger the shield rims identifies the 3 Doric clans.
The triangles identified the Acheans. The triangles appear on all the hearths of the Achaic bronze Age palaces.
Same aplies for the circles (spherae)
The menanders, squears(kibotia), the flame and letuce(thrinax) appear from the Archaic to Classical period
Sources: G Kaibel INSCRIPTIONES GRECAE Berlin 1890, Schimmelpfeng DE BRASIDAE SPARTANI REBUS GESTIS ATQUE INGENIO Marburg 1857, Bockh-Frantz CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM GRAECARUM Berlin 1828

The Spartan Marines were most likely recruited from the morae of Elos and Pylos (Bull and Leopard respectivelly)
http://www.spartasmores.gr/index.files/Page830.htm

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Re: How to portray a Spartan king from the classical era? - by hoplite14gr - 07-10-2009, 07:04 PM

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