The content of the historians writings? Flashcards
Aristophanes?
Wrote topical plays, portrays the Athenian stereotypes of Spartans.
Peloponnesian War.
Plutarch?
The Spartan Assembly
Spartan constitution
Lycurgus’ reforms (the division of land and wealth)
Social hierarchies of Sparta
The rhetras (no written laws)
Syssitia
Raising of children
Money – helot labour
The Spartan lifestyle
Elders
The freedom of men
Agoge and Krypteia
Workings of the assembly
Xenophon?
Writes about the agoge.
Herodotus?
Spartan military
The Spartan relationship with other city states in the Peloponnese
King Cleomenes
Cleomenes vs Argos
Role of Spartan kings
Religion and belief
Persian War – Battle of Thermopylae
Military tactics
Military and Hierarchy of the Persian army
Thucydides?
The agoge
Life in Sparta
Spartan military
Athenian military
Diodorus?
The Athenian/Spartan hostilities
Spartan Politics - Gerousia
