tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post3761544776320902582..comments2023-11-02T10:22:20.717-04:00Comments on Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: The Spartans as LacedaemoniansMike Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-53884534169899616692019-06-09T14:20:44.736-04:002019-06-09T14:20:44.736-04:00Lacedaemon in the Homeric times was also called &q...Lacedaemon in the Homeric times was also called "Ekatompolis" meaning "one hundrend cities".The hole area was inabited since-at least- Neolitic times as archeology has discovered one of the biggest european neolithic settlements near Sparta and in the Caves Of Diros (in the Mani region in the south)there have been discovered even Neadertal.In addition,in the Caves there has been discovered the largest neolithic cemetery in Europe dating back to 6000 BC and scolars belive that this is the place that gave birth to the ancient Greek myth of Hades(https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240430/Alepotrypa-Incredible-cave-experts-believe-inspired-Greek-legend-Hades.html).In fact this southern region of Lacedaemon(Mani aka Cape Taenaron or Matapan) is the place where the ancient Greeks belived that the "Entrance to the Underworld" was situated(Hercules himself used this gate to capture Cerberus).Here is the place that acoording to myth Apollo first founded his Oracle and then exchanged it to Hercules for today famous Delphi.Hercules founded here the "Death Oracle of Poseidon" where people came across from all the greek world to "contact" with the spirits of their beloved who Charon had already taken(in the Caves of Diros the turist visit in the first of the 3 caves is done on little gondolas as in reality this is a very very long underground cave with a river.Seated in the little boat passing through stalactits and stalagmits with the man who drives the boat standing behind you it s easy to imagine that you are taken to Hades by the infamous ferryman of the dead------https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZcna5CuYeM) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-26331180619062285652010-12-17T15:34:47.770-05:002010-12-17T15:34:47.770-05:00‘’because there is no evidence of Mycenaean or sub...‘’because there is no evidence of Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean culture there’’ – There is no evidence in the Eurotas valley but there is in the Menelaion site.<br /><br />‘’ and the Spartans were known as the Lacedaemonians from at least the fifth century B.C’’ – There is few of the inscribed monumets in Olympia,dedicated by Spartans(Akmatidas and Gorgos for example),one winning the pentathlon and one probably being one of the judges..both dated from 6th BC. So Lakedaimonioi is the term archeology knows much before 5th BC, Spartans is the term only used rarely,and in the context of Spartan citizens (while Lakedaimonioi is used in the very same context by Spartans themselves).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com