Sparta

This is for Scotland, not for Sparta.

Sparta always leaned toward war, Athens, toward politics.

Sooth, then, shall she return / to Sparta and Mycenae, ay, and see / home, husband, sons and parents, safe and free, / with Ilian wives and Phrygians in her train, / a queen, in pride of triumph? Shall this be, / and Troy have blazed and Priam's self been slain, / and Trojan blood so oft have soaked the Dardan plain?

Sparta aspired to hegemony over all of Greece.

What is Sparta?

Sparta isn’t an island, is it?

Is Sparta an island?

Sparta is a Greek city.

When the Persians said they would fire so many arrows that they would darken the sky, Leonidas, King of Sparta, is reported to have replied, "Better, for then we will fight in the shade."

Athens and Sparta are cities in Greece.