Sparta Flashcards
Agoge
Raising or upbringing in Spartan education, starts at the age of 7 and finish at the age of 24, only boys
Asty
City centre
Democracy
Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Ephor
One of five officials elected each year
Hoplite
Heavily-armed foot soldier
Krypteia
Secret police
Helot
A class of people making up the main population of Laconia and Messenia, mainly working in agriculture for Spartan citizens.
Kleros
An allotment of land
Lacedaemonians
Spartan and perioikoi
Laconia
The territory around the asty of Sparta, the state Sparta is located in.
Messenia
The fertile territory over the mountains to the west of Sparta
Laconian
The term used by other Greeks to refer to both the Spartans themselves and the inhabitants of the surrounding area.
Monarchy
The supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person.
Oikos
House, Household
Paidonomis
A Spartan official appointed to supervise the military training of children and adolescent boys.
Oligarchy
A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few
Perioikoi
Free, non-citizen Spartans
Polis
City-State
Rhetra
Oracle or law
Xenelasia
The practice of expelling unwanted foreigners from Sparta.
Herodotus
Historians in the 5th century bc, was known for the book series “The Histories”, was known to have a lot of bias towards greek values and perspectives.
