Spartan Collection

Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World, 1535. Creator: Maerten van Heemskerck
Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World, 1535

Sparta Archaeological Museum, Greece, 2003. Creator: Ethel Davies
Spartan warrior, possibly King Leonidas, found near the Sanctuary of Athena Chalkioikos, 5th century BC, at the Sparta Archaeological Museum, Agiou Nikonos, Greece, 2003

Mani, Greece, 2003. Creator: Ethel Davies
Harbourside church at Mani, home to the descendants of the ancient Greek Spartans, and located in the central peninsula of the Peloponnese in Southern Greece, 2003

The Testament of Eudamidas, 1644-1648. Creator: Nicolas Poussin
The Testament of Eudamidas, 1644-1648

La Mort d'Agis, 1789. Creator: Nicolas Andre Monsiau
La Mort d'Agis, 1789. The Death of Agis. Scene inspired by Plutarch. The body of Agis, King of Sparta, who has just been strangled on the orders of Leonidas, lies on the ground

Chilon of Sparta, 1596. Creator: Jan Muller
Chilon of Sparta, 1596

Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ward for Condemned Male Prisoners, Newgate Prison, [London], 1850. Those sentenced capitally are taken to the condemned cells, not to leave them again until their last moment, except for chapel

Dining Ward, Newgate Prison, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Dining Ward, Newgate Prison, [London], 1850. Extract from a report of the State of the Prison: The great corruption of Newgate still appears to be most fearful in the transport wards

Young Spartans Exercising, c1860, (1932). Artist: Edgar Degas
Young Spartans Exercising, c1860, (1932). Painting held at The National Gallery, London. From An Outline of Modern Painting in Europe and America, by S. C. Kaines Smith

Paris Abducting Helen, c1782-c1784. Artist: Gavin Hamilton
Paris Abducting Helen, c1782-c1784. The abduction of Helen, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta, by the Trojan prince Paris, led to the Trojan Wars

Archaic Greek bronze statuette of a Spartan female athlete
Archaic bronze statuette of a Spartan female athlete, running and holding her gymnos. From the National Museum in Athens

Leda and the Swan, 1550-1560. Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto
Leda and the Swan, 1550-1560. In Greek Mythology, Leda, the wife of Tyndareus, King of Sparta, was seduced by Zeus, who disguised himself as a swan. From the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

Bronze statue of Leonidas at Thermopylae, c20th century. Artist: Vasos Falireas
Bronze statue of Leonidas at Thermopylae, c20th century. This small monument commemorates the battle in 480 BC in which a small band of about Spartan soldiers held off a huge Persian army

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys, c. 1860. Creator: Edgar Degas
Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys, c. 1860

Helen, about 1787. Creator: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
Helen, about 1787. [In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world]

Chilon, Legislator & Philosopher of Sparta, ca. 1615. Creator: Jan Muller
Chilon, Legislator & Philosopher of Sparta, ca. 1615

Representatives of Athens and Corinth at the Court of Archidamas, King of Sparta, from the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, 1533

Spartan Soldier, 1859. Creator: Charles Negre
Spartan Soldier, 1859

Entering the Rapids, 1874. Creator: James David Smillie
Entering the Rapids, 1874. Tourists on board the steamer Spartan as it navigates white water on the the Saint Lawrence River, Ontario, Canada....the water leaps tempestuously around her

Lycurgus, (fl c820 BC), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Lycurgus, (fl c820 BC), 1830. Lycurgus (fl c820 BC) lawgiver of Sparta who established military reforms in accordance with the Oracle of Delphi, promoting virtues of equality (among citizens)

Death of Pausanias, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Death of Pausanias, 1890. Pausanias, Spartan regent and general suspected of conspiring with Xerxes I during the Greco-Persian Wars, on arrest he escaped to the temple of Athena

Repulse of Pyrrhus from Sparta, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Repulse of Pyrrhus from Sparta, 1890. Pyrrhus, in retreat at the Siege of Sparta, 272 BC from Spartans defending their city under command of Areus I

The Attack on the Piraeus, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Attack on the Piraeus, 1890. Attack on Piraeus, the harbour of Athens c389 BC by Teleutias, brother of Spartan king Agesilaus II. From " Cassells Illustrated Universal History, Vol

The Spartans at Plataea, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Spartans at Plataea, 1890. The Battle of Plataea 479 BC, was the final land battle of the second Persian invasion of Greece

Interview Between Agesilaus and Pharnabazus, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Interview Between Agesilaus and Pharnabazus, 1890. Meeting between Agesilaus II (c444-360 BC), king of Sparta, Eurypontid dynasty and Pharnabazus II (ruled 413-374 BC), a Persian statesman

The Race of the Spartan Girls, 1881. Creator: Unknown
The Race of the Spartan Girls, 1881. From " St. Nicholas: Volume VIII. Part I. November 1880, to May 1881". [Scribner & Co. New York, 1881]

Tenement housing, New York City, USA, 1890s

Sketches for a Kneeling Leda and of a Horse, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Sketches for a Kneeling Leda and of a Horse, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

The Tsarevna, costume design for the Ballets Russes production of Stravinskys The Firebird, 1910. Artist: Leon Bakst
The Tsarevna, costume design for the Ballets Russes production of Stravinskys The Firebird, 1910. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913)

Set Design for Act I of Helen of Sparta, performed by Ida Rubensteins ballet troupe, 1912. Artist: Leon Bakst
Set Design for Act I of Helen of Sparta, performed by Ida Rubensteins ballet troupe, 1912. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913)

Greece, Sparta, Funeral relief from Geraki in Severe Style, c5th century BC. at Archaeological Museum, Sparta. 480 BC. Severe style

Roman relief of Leda and the Swan, 1st century
A Roman relief of Leda and the Swan, from Crete. The swan is Zeus, who will ravish Leda and father Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri, 1st century

Roman relief of Leda and the Swan, from Hungary. The swan is Zeus, who will ravish Leda and father Helen of Troy and Castor and Pollux the divine twins. Currently in the National Museum, Budapest

Leonidas at Thermopylae, 5th century BC, (c1814). Artist: Jacques-Louis David
Leonidas at Thermopylae, 5th century BC, (c1814). Leonidas (died c480 BC) was king of Sparta from 491 BC. He held the pass at Thermopylae for 3 days with 300 Spartans

Spartans asking the Oracle at Delphi whether to make war against Athens, c431 BC (1910). The Priestess of the temple of Apollo at Delphi was the most famous Ancient Greek oracle

Young Spartans Exercising, c1860. Artist: Edgar Degas
Young Spartans Exercising, c1860. Spartan girls urge boys to fight. From the National Gallery, London

Sphinx from Sparta, Ancient Greece. In Greek mythology a Sphinx was a female monster with a human head and a lions body. It posed riddles and killed people who could not answer

Sparta, Greece and valley of the River Eurotas, with Taiyrtos mountains beyond, c20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Sparta, Greece and valley of the River Eurotas, with Taiyrtos mountains beyond, c20th century

Aristomenes Fighting His Way Out of Eira, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Aristomenes Fighting His Way Out of Eira, 1890. Aristomenes, king of Messenia, celebrated for his struggle with the Spartans c685BC and resistance to them on Mount Eira for eleven years

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