013. Sons of Heracles

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 Sp...