Sparta to the Battle of Leuctra 371BC

Question 1

Geographical Setting, Natural Features and Resources of Ancient Sparta

Question 2

Significant Sites: Sparta

Question 3

the Great Rhetra: the issue of Lycurgus (social structure and political organisation)

Question 4

roles and privileges of the two kings (social structure and political organisation)

Question 5

government: ephorate, gerousia, ekklesia (social structure and political organisation)

Question 6

social structure and occupations: Spartiates, periokoi, ‘inferiors’, helots (social structure and political organisation)

Question 7

the Spartan army: training (agoge), composition (social structure and political organisation)

Question 8

control of the helots: the military, syssitia, krypteia (social structure and political organisation)

Question 9

role and status of women: land ownership, inheritance, education (social structure and political organisation)

Question 10

land ownership: agriculture, kleroi, helots (the economy)

Question 11

technology: weapons, armour, pottery (the economy)

Question 12

economic roles of the periokoi and helots (the economy)

Question 13

economic exchange: use of iron bars, trade (the economy)

Question 14

gods and goddesses: Artemis Orthia, Poseidon, Apollo (religion)

Question 15

myths and legends: Lycurgus and the Dioscuri (religion)

Question 16

festivals: Hyakinthia, Gymnopaedia, Karneia (religion)

Question 17

religious role of the kings (religion)

Question 18

funerary customs and rituals (religion)

Question 19

art: sculpture, painted vases, bone and ivory carving (Culture and everyday life)

Question 20

architecture: Amyklaion, Menelaion, the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia (Culture and everyday life)

Question 21

writing and literature: Alcman and Tyrtaeus (Culture and everyday life)

Question 22

Greek writers’ views of Sparta: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Pausanias,
Plutarch (Culture and everyday life)

Question 23

leisure activities (Culture and everyday life)

Question 24

marriage customs (Culture and everyday life)