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The 33 pages that link to Sparta, each with the reason it gives.

• ThucydidesRelated: Sparta was Athens’ principal rival in the war Thucydides chronicled.

• OligarchyRelated: Its layered institutions concentrated authority among a narrow citizen elite.

• Olympic truceRelated: Sparta was fined after violating the truce by attacking Elis during a protected period.

• Cleisthenes (Athenian statesman)Related: King Cleomenes I intervened in Athens on Isagoras’ side, provoking resistance to foreign-backed rule.

• Cyrus the YoungerRelated: Spartan support helped Cyrus recruit Greek soldiers for his campaign.

• Thirty TyrantsRelated: Sparta was the victorious power behind the settlement that enabled the Thirty.

• Chremonidean WarRelated: Sparta joined Athens in opposing Macedonian supremacy.

• Battle of CunaxaRelated: Cyrus recruited Greek soldiers with Spartan connections and support.

• PhilopoemenRelated: Spartan power was the principal regional rival against which Megalopolis and the League organized.

• Amyntas III of MacedonRelated: Amyntas sought Spartan support against Olynthus and the Chalcidian League.

• First Messenian WarRelated: The war’s aggressor, Sparta sought control of the fertile Messenian plain.