sparta history Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/sparta-history Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Sparta & the Haunts of Helen http://travelsfinders.com/sparta-the-haunts-of-helen.html http://travelsfinders.com/sparta-the-haunts-of-helen.html#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:06:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244819 The most beautiful of all Spartan woman had once been the most ugly. What happened was this: her parents considered her appearance a disaster, so, pondering her unappealing looks, her nurse devised this plan: each day she took the child to Helen’s sanctuary at Therapne, above the temple of Apollo placed her beside the statue and prayed to the goddess to stop the child being ugly. One day, as she was leaving the sanctuary, they say the nurse met a woman who asked her what she was carrying in her arms. When she said it was a

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