What is the pit in Sparta?
The Spartan kings as Heracleidae claimed descent from Heracles, who through his mother was descended from Perseus.
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The KINGS OF SPARTA
What is the name of a Spartan king?
The ancient historian Plutarch claimed these “ill-born” Spartan babies were tossed into a chasm at the foot of Mount Taygetus, but most historians now dismiss this as a myth. If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside.
Except the Caeadas chasm isn’t the pit the ambassadors were tossed into. I think the chasm was where they threw criminals and imperfect babies. The well the Spartans tossed the Persians into was different.
How deep is the pit in Sparta?
It is where the Spartans, mainly during the period of the Messenian wars, were said to have abandoned their weak and deformed infants as well as the criminals, traitors and war prisoners, until 406 BC, when it stopped being used.
