Spartan Mirage

Question 1

What reason does the Spartans give for not fighting

Answer 1

Religion

Question 2

What festival did HDT say stopped the Spartans participating in the battle of Marathon?

Answer 2

Carneia

Question 3

‘No one knew the numbers of the Spartans’

Answer 3

Thucydides Peloponnesian War 5.68

Question 4

‘No one knew the number of Spartans’

Answer 4

Thucydides Peloponnesian War 5.68

Spartan mirage

Little is known about the Spartans

Question 5

‘It is a noble thing for a man to fall in the front line ‘

Answer 5

Tyrateus 10

Question 6

Who said the Spartans don’t chase their opponents

Answer 6

Plutarch

Helps as their opponents are more likely to give in

Question 7

What shattered the Spartan mirage

Answer 7

Sphacteria

Question 8

‘The general impression had been that tbe Spartans would never surrender’

Answer 8

Thucydides 4.40

Question 9

The Spartans could be considered a slave to who ?

Answer 9

The hellots

Question 10

‘Most Spartan institutions have always been designed with a view to security against the hellots’

Answer 10

Thucydides