These notes are being built based on the 2016 HSC Ancient History topic of Sparta
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Created by Brianna McCarthy
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Spartans received a fresh supply of water from which river?
By 750 BCE, the five villages that unified to form Sparta were...
In the 5th century BCE, who wrote that "Sparta was such an insignificant place that in future times there would be no ruins to remind people that it had ever existed"? *
Thucydides quote about significcance
A market place for trade and social life was called an ?
Which Spartan port provided shellfish for dye to colour clothing?
An Athenian poet from 5CE was known as
The monarchic aspect of Spartan government was known as the:
The aristocratic aspect of Spartan government was known as the:
Which of the following kings was part of the Agiad royal family?
According to Herodotus, which TWO social groups attended the funeral of a Spartan king?
How many ephors (magistrates) were elected each year?
Another term that best describes a "Spartiate" (equal) is
What was the approximate ratio of Spartans to helots? *
What were the THREE requirements that made someone a Spartiate?
What was the main purpose of the syssition?
What does the term perioikoi mean?
Why did the perioikoi most likely accept their inferior position in Sparta?
What does Thucydides suggest Spartan society was based on?
How were helots different to Athenian slaves?
What institution was used to control the helots?
Why was helot bravery a mixed blessing?
Men who were denied full Spartan citizenship and excluded from the ranks of the homoioi, and who were the sons of an illegitimate union between a Spartiate and a helot woman were known as
Name 2 Spartan Festivals
Standard fighting formation
Men carrying heavy armour and weappns, primary fighters
Shield
Pressfield on paintings on hoplons
Body Armour
Spear and sword
Tyraeus poem on army
Devisions of the army
Soldiers who guarded the king in battle
Euripides on Laconian geography
Bordering ranges of Laconia
Resources of Laconia
Defensive centre for invasions
Sanctuary of Spartan goddess
Plutarch on the legitimacy of Lychurgus
Origins of dual kingship
Roles of the kings
Gerousia
Ephors
Ekklesia/ apella
Plot of land
Plutarch - Women
Xenophon - Lychurgus - Women
Evidence of boars as natural resource
Euripedes on geography and resources of Sparta
Strabo on natural resources
Sanctuary to spartan king and bride
Religious shrine that saw the hyakinthia
Sources for Lychurgus
Lychurgus' inspiration for change
Author of the Life of Lychurgus
Most important changes made by Lychurgus, as accodring to Plutarch
Term for good order and good government
Herodotus on Lychurgus
Plutarch - Lychurgus - Arts
Xenophon - Lychurgus - general way of life
Herodotus on role of kings
Herodotus on religious sacrifice - role of king
Funeral of the king - As according to Herodotus
Types of government in Sparta
Xenophon on Ephors
Aristotle on gerousia and bribery/ corruption
Gerousia initiation
Requirements for male citizenship
Privileges of homoios
Plutarch - Spartiate - Kleros
Dwellers around
Jobs and duties of Periokoi
Periokoi archaelogical evidence
Herodotus on Periokic war inclusion
Plutarch on inferiors
Thucydides - Helots
Plutarch - Helots
Finely on Helots
Population of Helots
Secret police
Evidence of Hoplite grooming and attire
Infantry attire
Aristotle on women and land management
Xenophon on womens education
Archealogical evidence of women - religion and women's clothing
Plutarch on agoge and education
Plutarch - Agoge
Aristotle on kleros and economy
Iron ore weapons
Pottery
Religion evidence
City state patron
Goddess concerned with growth and fertility
Evidence of Karneia festival
Stages of Hyakinthia
Karneia
Gymnopaedia
Evidence of bronze making
Ivory and bone carving
Bronze making technique
Quote on pottery and painted vessels
Laconia 1 - Style of 7th century
Laconia 2 - Early 6th century
Laconia 3 - Late 6th century
Source for architecture
NOTE: architecture was minimal and merely functional
description of sanctuary of artemis orthia architecture
Alkman quote
Plutarch -View and validity
Herodotus - view and validity
Thucydides
Aristotle - views and reliability
Pausanias
