Example sentences for: sparta

How can you use “sparta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As Athens prospered, intense economic and ideological rivalry developed with Athens’ ally during the Persian Wars, Sparta.

  • A few hundred heroic troops under Leonidas of Sparta delayed the enormous Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae long enough for the Athenians to be evacuated to the island of Salamis.

  • In the succeeding centuries Byzantium, like the cities of the Aegean, fell under the sway of Athens, Sparta, Persia, Alexander, and Rome.

  • Sparta attempted to govern the city through a council of 30 men, known as the “Thirty Tyrants,” who spent most of their time persecuting opponents and confiscating property.

  • In less than a year they were driven from the city, and Sparta, embroiled in other conflicts, let Athens re-establish its maritime alliances without resistance.


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