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Was Ares particularly worshiped in Sparta?

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This may be surprising to a lot of modern observers of Sparta, but the deities who got the most attention from Spartans were actually Artemis and Apollo. Artemis (R) and Apollo (L) , from the archeological museum of Sparta. read more

Sparta was one of the sponsors of the Greek colony at Cyrene, Libya which which adopted a Greekified version of the Egyptian god and the worship spread from there back to Sparta. There were two temples to Zeus Ammon — one in Sparta proper, and one in the Spartan seaport at Gytheum. read more

His worship was centered in small cults, rather than amongst the general populace of Greece. Specifically, more warlike areas like Macedonia, Thrace, and Sparta paid homage to Ares. There are numerous accounts of a Spartan man, Menoikeus, offering himself as sacrifice to Ares, in order to secure the gates of Thebes. read more

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