Welcome back to Spartan History Podcast. This is the first episode not based in the bronze/mythic age and takes a look at the Dark age era of Spartan history.
It's an intrinsic period to the city that would one day dominate Greece as it was the time that saw it's foundation. Although anachronistically mentioned by Homer in his works, archaeology has as yet not detected any Mycenaean palace in the region of Sparta. Certainly nothing fit for Menelaus and Helen.
All evidence points to the Spartan's settling on the west bank of the Eurotas river around the middle of the 10th century BCE.
The jury is still out on where they came from previously and in this episode we'll take a look at all the different possibilities, both mythic and factual to parse out what truths we can about origin of this enigmatic people.
I hope you all enjoy and take care.
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