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War against Nabis, the Glossary

The Laconian War of 195 BC was fought between the Greek city-state of Sparta and a coalition composed of Rome, the Achaean League, Pergamum, Rhodes, and Macedon.^[1]

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190s BC conflicts
195 BC
2nd century BC in Greece
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Wars involving Sparta
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Wars involving the Achaean League
Wars of the Hellenistic period

Achaean League

The Achaean League (League of Achaeans) was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city-states on the northern and central Peloponnese.

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Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.

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Aetolia

Aetolia (Aitōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.

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Aetolian League

The Aetolian (or Aitolian) League (Κοινὸν τῶν Αἰτωλῶν) was a confederation of tribal communities and cities in ancient Greece centered in Aetolia in Central Greece.

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Agesipolis III

Agesipolis III (Ἀγησίπολις; died 183 BC) was the 32nd and last of the kings of the Agiad dynasty in ancient Sparta.

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Agiad dynasty

The Agiad dynasty was one of the two royal families of Sparta, a powerful city-state of Ancient Greece.

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Agoge

The agoge (ágōgḗ in Attic Greek, or ἀγωγά, ágōgá in Doric Greek) was the training program pre-requisite for Spartiate (citizen) status.

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Agora

The agora (ἀγορά, romanized:, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.

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Alexamenus (Ἀλεξαμενός), a general of the Aetolians in 196 BC, who was sent by the Aetolians in 192 during the War against Nabis, to obtain possession of Lacedaemon.

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An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not an explicit agreement has been worked out among them.

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Amyclae

Amyclae or Amyklai (Ἀμύκλαι) was a city of ancient Laconia, situated on the right or western bank of the Eurotas, 20 stadia south of Sparta, in a district remarkable for the abundance of its trees and its fertility.

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Ancient Macedonians

The Macedonians (Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece.

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Antigonid dynasty

The Antigonid dynasty (Ἀντιγονίδαι) was a Macedonian Greek royal house which ruled the kingdom of Macedon during the Hellenistic period.

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Antiochus III the Great

Antiochus III the Great (Ἀντίοχος ὁ Μέγας; 3 July 187 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic king and the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire, reigning from 223 to 187 BC.

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Arcadia (region)

Arcadia (Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese.

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Archidamus V

Archidamus V (Ἀρχίδαμος Ε΄) was the 27th of the Kings of Sparta of the Eurypontid line, reigning during 228 and 227 BC.

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Argos, Peloponnese

Argos (Άργος; Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe.

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Aristaenus

Aristaenus (Ἀρίσταινος) of Megalopolis, was sometimes called "Aristaenetus" by Polybius and Plutarch.

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Aulus Atilius Serranus

Aulus Atilius Serranus was a consul in the year 170 BC, together with Aulus Hostilius Mancinus.

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Ballista

The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.

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Basileus

Basileus (βασιλεύς) is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs throughout history.

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Battle of Cynoscephalae

The Battle of Cynoscephalae (Μάχη τῶν Κυνὸς Κεφαλῶν) was an encounter battle fought in Thessaly in 197 BC between the Roman army, led by Titus Quinctius Flamininus, and the Antigonid dynasty of Macedon, led by Philip V, during the Second Macedonian War. War against Nabis and battle of Cynoscephalae are 190s BC conflicts and 2nd century BC in Greece.

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Battle of Mantinea (207 BC)

The Battle of Mantinea was fought in 207 BC between Sparta under the tyrant Machanidas, as part of the Aetolian League, and the Achaean League whose forces were led by Philopoemen.

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Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece.

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Battle of Sellasia

The Battle of Sellasia took place during the summer of 222 BC between Macedon and the Achaean League, led by Antigonus III Doson, and Sparta under the command of King Cleomenes III.

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Citadel

A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city.

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Cleomenes III

Cleomenes III (Κλεομένης) was one of the two kings of Sparta from 235 to 222 BC.

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Cohort (military unit)

A cohort (from the Latin cohors,: cohortes; see wikt:cohors for full inflection table) was a standard tactical military unit of a Roman legion.

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Corinth

Corinth (Kórinthos) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Demaratus

Demaratus (Greek: Δημάρατος, Demaratos; Doric: Δαμάρατος, Damaratos) was a king of Sparta from around 515 BC to 491 BC.

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Desertion

Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.

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Dexagoridas

Dexagoridas (died 195 BC) was the joint Spartan commander of the port of Gythium.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology is a biographical dictionary of classical antiquity, edited by William Smith and originally published in London by Taylor, Walton (and Maberly) and John Murray from 1844 to 1849 in three volumes of more than 3,700 pages.

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Ephor

The ephors were a board of five magistrates in ancient Sparta.

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Erich S. Gruen

Erich Stephen Gruen (born May 7, 1935) is an American classicist and ancient historian.

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Eucleidas

Eucleidas (Εὐκλείδας) reigned Sparta from 227 BC to 222 BC.

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Eumenes II

Eumenes II Soter (Εὐμένης Σωτήρ; ruled 197–159 BC) was a ruler of Pergamon, and a son of Attalus I Soter and queen Apollonis and a member of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon.

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Gorgopas (2nd century BC)

Gorgopas was one of the joint Spartan garrison commanders at Gythium.

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Greco-Persian Wars

The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. War against Nabis and Greco-Persian Wars are wars involving Sparta.

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Gytheio

Gytheio (Γύθειο) or Gythio, also the ancient Gythium or Gytheion (Γύθειον), is a town on the eastern shore of the Mani Peninsula, and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece.

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Hastati

Hastati (hastatus) were a class of infantry employed in the armies of the early Roman Republic, who originally fought as spearmen and later as swordsmen.

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Helots

The helots (εἵλωτες, heílotes) were a subjugated population that constituted a majority of the population of Laconia and Messenia – the territories ruled by Sparta.

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Investment (military)

Investment is the military process of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Laconia

Laconia or Lakonia (Λακωνία) is a historical and administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

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Las (Greece)

Las (Λᾶς and ἡ Λᾶς), or Laas (Λάας), or La (Λᾶ), was one of the most ancient towns of Lakedaimonia (eventually called the Mani Peninsula), located on the western coast of the Laconian Gulf.

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League of Free Laconians

The League of Free Laconians was established in southern Greece in 21 BC by the Emperor Augustus,Greenhalgh and Eliopoulos.

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Legatus

A legatus (anglicised as legate) was a high-ranking Roman military officer in the Roman army, equivalent to a high-ranking general officer of modern times.

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List of kings of Sparta

For most of its history, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings.

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Livy

Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.

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Lucius Quinctius Flamininus

Lucius Quinctius Flamininus (died 170 BC) was a Roman politician and general who served as consul in 192 BC alongside Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.

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Lycurgus

Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος) was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited with the formation of its eunomia ("good order"), involving political, economic, and social reforms to produce a military-oriented Spartan society in accordance with the Delphic oracle.

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Lycurgus (king of Sparta)

Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος; 219–217 BC) was a king of Sparta, who reigned from 219 BC until his death shortly before 211 BC.

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Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

Macedonia (Μακεδονία), also called Macedon, was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.

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Macedonian phalanx

The Macedonian phalanx (Μακεδονική φάλαγξ) was an infantry formation developed by Philip II from the classical Greek phalanx, of which the main innovation was the use of the sarissa, a 6-metre pike.

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Machanidas

Machanidas (Μαχανίδας) was a tyrant of Lacedaemon near the end of the 3rd century BC.

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Maurice Holleaux

Maurice Holleaux (15 April 1861 – 21 September 1932) was a 19th–20th-century French historian, archaeologist and epigrapher, a specialist of Ancient Greece.

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Megalopolis, Greece

Megalopoli (Μεγαλόπολη) is a town in the southwestern part of the regional unit of Arcadia, southern Greece.

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Mercenary

A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.

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Messene

Messene (Greek: Μεσσήνη 𐀕𐀼𐀙 Messini), officially Ancient Messene, is a local community within the regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) of Messenia in the region (perifereia) of Peloponnese.

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Nabis of Sparta

Nabis (Νάβις) was the last king of independent Sparta.

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Nemean Games

The Nemean Games (Νέμεα or Νέμεια) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were held at Nemea every two years (or every third).

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Paul Cartledge

Paul Anthony Cartledge (born 24 March 1947)"CARTLEDGE, Prof.

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Peloponnese

The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.

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Pelops of Sparta

Pelops (Πέλοψ) was King of Sparta of the Eurypontid dynasty.

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Pergamon

Pergamon or Pergamum (or; Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.

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Perioeci

The Perioeci or Perioikoi (Περίοικοι) were the second-tier citizens of the polis of Sparta until 200 BC.

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Peter Green (historian)

Peter Morris Green (born 22 December 1924), Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series.

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Philip V of Macedon

Philip V (Philippos; 238–179 BC) was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon from 221 to 179 BC.

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Philopoemen

Philopoemen (Φιλοποίμην Philopoímēn; 253 BC, Megalopolis – 183 BC, Messene) was a skilled Greek general and statesman, who was Achaean strategos on eight occasions.

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Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus (254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.

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Poenulus

Poenulus, also called The Little Carthaginian or The Little Punic Man, is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus, probably written between 195 and 189 BC.

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Polis

Polis (πόλις), plural poleis (πόλεις), means ‘city’ in ancient Greek.

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Polybius

Polybius (Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.

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Praetor

Praetor, also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties.

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Principes

Principes (princeps) were spearmen, and later swordsmen, in the armies of the early Roman Republic.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.

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Ptolemaic dynasty

The Ptolemaic dynasty (Πτολεμαῖοι, Ptolemaioi), also known as the Lagid dynasty (Λαγίδαι, Lagidai; after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), was a Macedonian Greek royal house which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period.

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Ptolemaic Kingdom

The Ptolemaic Kingdom (Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or Ptolemaic Empire was an Ancient Greek polity based in Egypt during the Hellenistic period.

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Regions of ancient Greece

The regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the Ancient Greeks of antiquity, shown by their presence in the works of ancient historians and geographers or in surviving legends and myths.

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Rhodes

Rhodes (translit) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Scutum

The scutum (scuta) was a type of shield used among Italic peoples in antiquity, most notably by the army of ancient Rome starting about the fourth century BC.

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Second Macedonian War

The Second Macedonian War (200–197 BC) was fought between Macedon, led by Philip V of Macedon, and Rome, allied with Pergamon and Rhodes. War against Nabis and Second Macedonian War are 190s BC conflicts, 2nd century BC in Greece, wars involving Pergamon, wars involving ancient Rhodes and wars involving the Roman Republic.

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Second Punic War

The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. War against Nabis and second Punic War are wars involving the Roman Republic.

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Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.

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Sellasia

Sellasia (Σελλασία, before 1929: Βρουλιά - Vroulia) is a village in Laconia, Greece.

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Siege engine

A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent heavy castle doors, thick city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare.

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Sparta

Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.

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Status quo

italic is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social, economic, legal, environmental, political, religious, scientific or military issues.

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Strategos

Strategos, plural strategoi, Latinized strategus, (στρατηγός, pl.; Doric Greek: στραταγός, stratagos; meaning "army leader") is used in Greek to mean military general.

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Syssitia

The syssitia (συσσίτια syssítia, plural of συσσίτιον syssítion) were, in ancient Greece, common meals for men and youths in social or religious groups, especially in Crete and Sparta, but also in Megara in the time of Theognis of Megara (sixth century BCE) and Corinth in the time of Periander (seventh century BCE).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_Nabis

Also known as Laconian War, Roman Spartan War, Roman-Spartan War.

, Livy, Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, Lycurgus, Lycurgus (king of Sparta), Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonian phalanx, Machanidas, Maurice Holleaux, Megalopolis, Greece, Mercenary, Messene, Monarch, Nabis of Sparta, Nemean Games, Paul Cartledge, Peloponnese, Pelops of Sparta, Pergamon, Perioeci, Peter Green (historian), Philip V of Macedon, Philopoemen, Plautus, Poenulus, Polis, Polybius, Praetor, Principes, Prison, Ptolemaic dynasty, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Regions of ancient Greece, Rhodes, Roman Republic, Rome, Scutum, Second Macedonian War, Second Punic War, Seleucid Empire, Sellasia, Siege engine, Sparta, Status quo, Strategos, Syssitia, Thessaly, Titus Quinctius Flamininus, Tyrant, William Smith (lexicographer).

War against Nabis, the Glossary

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See also

190s BC conflicts

195 BC

2nd century BC in Greece

Wars involving Antigonid Macedon

Wars involving Pergamon

Wars involving Sparta

Wars involving ancient Rhodes

Wars involving the Achaean League

Wars of the Hellenistic period

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