Sparta Flashcards
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Describe the great rhetra
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Laws giving to Lycurgus from delphine oracles
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Describe two natural features
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Mountain taygetus and eurotas river
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What’s a homoioi
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Peer or equal
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What is a perioeci
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Dwellers around
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What are helots
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State owned slaves from Messina and lakonia
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Name the three groups in the government
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Gerousia, ekklesia and five ephors
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What does the gerousia consist of
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30 members, 28 old men and 2 kings
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Q
Illegitimate children of helot mother and spartiate fathers
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Pathenai
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Sons of helot adopted as playmates for Spartan boys
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Mothsakes
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Spartans who lost citizenship by failing agoge or not contributing to syssiton
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Inferior: hypomeiones
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Outline 3 main features of gerousia
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- Could put king on trial
- Judicial powers over serious crimes
- Elected by the ekklesia
