2-714-402 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'General View of Sparta, Restored', 1890. Sparta, known as Lacedaemon, a prominent city-state on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia Ancient Greece, became the dominant military land-power, c650 BC. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]