Basics Flashcards
What is epigraphic evidence two examples
Appears in public buildings and tombstones
Study of inscription
Partly archeological and written
Recoded laws tax and conjured people and treaties
What is literary evidence
Poems drama plays Spoken and written by ancient people Tells us personalility society and events Poems such as - the odessy - the Iliad
What is archaeological evidence
Actual material objects
Building monuments temples that have survived
Helps date a sight
Pottery one of the most evidence
Explain the triangle in order
Spartan men
Spartan women
Inferiors
Helots
What is a kypteia
A secret police
What is the marriage ritual
Females Cut hair Dressed as a boy Make would kidnap in the night would "rape" Men Only see wives at night "kept passion alive" Used to produce strong Spartan Kept them sneaky
What are the four type of inferiors
Parteniai- children of Spartan men and he lot mothers
Monthaces- sons of helots adopted as playmates for Spartan boys
Neodandias- helots who earned freedom courage in battle
Tresantes- spartiates deprived of citizenship (cowardice) looked down on but could move up again
Explains what a perioeci is
Outer dweller
Must obey Spartan and be loyal
Acts as a border of helots
Sparta didn’t interfere with them
What are helots
Conquered messinians State owned Little rights lived with family, freedom of religion Main duties Farming household slaves Helot men used in war Treated brutally Positives State owned Lived with families Freedom of religion
Spartan women
We’re educated strengthen and teamwork
Marred later insured bodies we ready for child birth
Born to make strong Spartan men
No chores
Sent son to battle proudly
Excised in public
Only way to get s tomb stone was to die in birth
Women education
As equal as boys
Taught basic reading and writing
Nudity was encouraged
As they got older taught how to manage estate
Given physical to strength embryos, for child birth
What was the king of thermoplylae
Leonaidas
How many men were there
300 men
What is numismatic evidence?
Study of coins Can be archaeological and literary Written materials - names - symbols - shows important events celebrated
Who is xerxes
The king of the Persians
Son of darius
