Spartan Collection (page 3)

Spartan Arrow G-ABWP at the Fifty Years of Flying Exhibition, held at RAF Hendon, with Blackburn B.2 G-AEBJ. Date: 1951

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 Kitchen Date: 1880

China, Tibet, Young woman from a nomad family on a highland pasture

China, Tibet, Young woman from a Tibetan nomad family on a highland pasture near family tent

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

A farmer sits in the farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland
An elderly farmer sits in the farm kitchen and puts the kettle over the peat fire. He wears a cloth cap and wellington boots. Co Clare, Ireland. See also 12445690 - 1247384 Date: 1990

Farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland - 2
A farmer and his wife and family sit in front of a peat fire over which a kettle boils in their farmhouse kitchen. County Clare, Ireland. First published The Sunday Times

Farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland
A farmer and his wife sit in front of a peat fire over which a kettle boils in their farmhouse kitchen. County Clare, Ireland. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

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

Reticulated giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) black and white picture of group of three, Kenya

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]

de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito B-35
Spartan Air Servicede Havilland Dh-98 Mosquito B-35 Parked with Hangars Behind Date: 1955

Christmas Eve in Siberia, 1892 (oil on canvas)
MNK129635 Christmas Eve in Siberia, 1892 (oil on canvas) by Malczewski, Jacek (1854-1929); 81x126 cm; National Museum in Cracow, Poland; Polish, out of copyright

Arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus) in snow carrying snowgoose egg, Wrangel Island, Far East Russia, May

Peacock / Blue Peafowl male (Pavo cristatus) perched in tree, Yala National Park, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serranus) calling in flight, Cotopaxi, Ecuador

Snowy owl (Bubo scandiaca) female in flight, Canada. February

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)

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

Return With Your Shield Or On It Sparta Spartan
Return with your shield - or on it. According to Greek historian and philosopher Plutarch Spartan mothers said this to their warrior sons who were departing to join battle

Lycurgus Legendary Lawgiver Sparta Spartan Ancient Greece
Lycurgus, (possibly circa 800 BC) Legendary lawgiver of Sparta. After a painting by Francois Sablet

The death of Pausanius, forced to die of starvation in the temple of Athena by the Spartan Ephors. Pausanias, died c. 477 BC. Spartan regent and general

Meeting between Agesilaus (left) and Pharnabazus II (right) in 395 BC, when Agesilaus agreed to remove himself from Hellespontine Phrygia. Agesilaus II, c. 444/443 - c. 360 BC

The Battle of Plataea, 479 BC, in which the defeat of the invasion forces of Xerxes was the final land battle of the second Persian invasion of Greece

Engraving depicting a scene from the Peloponnesian War, an ancient Greek war
Engraving depicting a scene from the Peloponnesian War

Engraving depicting Brasidas, Spartan officer, 20th century
Engraving depicting Brasidas

Engraving depicting Agis I, King of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty, 20th century
Engraving depicting Agis I

Lycurgus Numa Pompilius give Romans laws Scenes Roman history
Lycurgus and Numa Pompilius give the Romans the laws Scenes Roman history (series title), The Spartan leader Lycurgus and the Roman king Numa Pompilius hand out the laws to a crowd of Romans

Imaginary View Of The City Of Ancient Sparta With Mt Taygetus Behind. From El Mundo Ilustrado, Published Barcelona, 1880

Imaginary View Of The Market Place In Ancient Sparta. From El Mundo Ilustrado, Published Barcelona, 1880

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

GREECE. PELOPONNESE. LACONIA. Sparta. Ruins of a theater

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