Sparta

Reading notes

• Agamemnon §275 Sparta

  The Spartan homeland of Helen and Clytemnestra, on the river Eurotas.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.94.62 Sparta

  Sparta (Lacedaemon), the great Dorian city of the Peloponnese; here, with Athens, an emblem of Greek freedom crushed by Alexander.

• Octavia §785 Sparta

  City of Helen, 'her daughter' whose beauty Sparta boasts.

• The Phoenician Women §121 Sparta

  The Peloponnesian city, 'ennobled by her twin brothers' Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri.

• Thyestes §627 Sparta

  The chief city of Laconia, named (with bitter irony) as the seat of 'loving brothers.'

• The Trojan Women §883 Sparta

  The city of Menelaus and Helen, blamed by the chorus as the source of the whole catastrophe.