Topic 4 Definitions (Sparta)

Question 1

Five men > age 30 that supervised the kings; enforced laws; one year terms; judged cases; in charge of education; declare war against helots

Answer 1

Ephor

Question 2

Council of elders (> age 60, twenty-eight men); served for life; chief legislative and judicial body with the kings

Answer 2

Gerousia

Question 3

The enslaved neighbors to the Spartans; hereditary bondage to the state; Spartan life depended on the labor of helots in Laconia and Messenia; fear of helot uprisings was common (discouraged far away campaigns)

Answer 3

Helots

Question 4

inhabitants of villages nearby Sparta; granted local autonomy, obligated to military service, no public office

Answer 4

Perioikoi

Question 5

dining group where a group of fifteen youths ate together and each member contributed a fixed portion of food and drink to the communal meal.

Answer 5

Syssition

Question 6

Alongside the council (boule, Gerousia in Sparta) as one of the two primary elements of Greek governance; adult male Spartans (homoioi), vote on bills

Answer 6

Assembly

Question 7

name of the Spartan military education; males had to complete in order to qualify for full Spartan citizenship

Answer 7

Agoge

Question 8

male youth

Answer 8

Ephebe(s)

Question 9

legendary founder of the Spartan way of life in late 7th cent. BC

Answer 9

Lykurgos