Figures

1

The frontiers of Sparta c. 545

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2

The geology of Lakonia

12

3

The Helos plain: geological change

17

4

Neolithic and Early Helladic Lakonia

27

5

Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I-IIIA Lakonia

34

6

The Menelaion hill near Sparta

38

7

Late Helladic IIIB Lakonia

55

8

Late Helladic IIIC Lakonia

60

9

Protogeometric Lakonia

67

10

Stratification at the Amyklaion sanctuary

71

11

Lakonian Protogeometric and Geometric pottery

74

12

The villages of Sparta

91

13

The distribution of Lakonian Late Geometric pottery

95

14

Messenia in the eighth century BC

101

15

The colonization of Taras c. 706

108

16

Archaic sites in Lakonia and Messenia

114

17

Routes in Lakonia and Messenia

160

18

Classical sites in Lakonia and Messenia

172

19

The sanctuary of Orthia at Sparta

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