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In honour of Pausanias and Leonidas

Opposite the theater are two tombs; the first is that of Pausanias, the general at Plataea, the second is that of Leonidas. Every year they deliver speeches over them, and hold a contest in which none may compete except Spartans.

Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia
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Gymnopaedia

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin)
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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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Pyrricha

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin)
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Hecatombaea

Hecatombaea (Hekatombaia). An anniversary sacrifice called by this name in Laconia, and offered for the preservation of the hundred towns which once flourished in that country.

Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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Tithenidia

Tithenidia: Perseus Lookup Tool, text search
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