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- 1LYCURGUS- XenophonGreatly admired Lycurgus for building a flourishing Sparta
"remarkably wise man"
Laws laid out for "excellent order of things" - 2LYCURGUS- Plutarchreforms from the oracle at Delphi
"sweep away the existing order and to make a complete change to the constitution" - 3LYCURGUS- Michell"cannot definitely affirm his existence but equally we cannot deny it"
- 4LYCURGUS- Andrews"Most successful frauds in history"
- 5SPARTIATESPlutarch: numbered 10 000
Herodotus: not all equal in wealth
Plutarch: only legal profession was arms - 6HELOTS- Thucydides"descendants of the ancient messenians"
"enslaved in the great war"
policy towards them was "bases entirely on the idea of security" - 7HELOTS- Plutarch"treated the Helots harshly and cruelly"
eg. made them get drunk to make a spectacle of them - 8HELOTS- Barrow"Spartans were always concerned with the possibility of revolt"
belonged to the land and same race, thus "more likely to join together in attempted rebellion" - 9ARMY- PlutarchPhalanx looked like "a ferocious beast"
long hair "make the handsome better looking and the ugly more frightening" - 10ARMY failures- HerodotusDesserter at Thermopylae
Battle Plataea- refusal to retreat - 11KRYPTEIA- Xenophon"made frequent night raids and killed any helot they saw"
- 12EDUCATION- Thucydides"education was aimed at developing smart obedience, perseverance under stress and victory in battle"
- 13EDUCATION- Plutarch"Learnt to read and write no more than was necessary"
- 14EDUCATION- Pausanias"they fight hand to hand...bite and gouge out eyes"
- 15WOMEN- Xenophon- functionMost important function was bearing children
- 16WOMEN- Xenophon- Education(lycurgus) "instituted contests of speed and strength parallel to those for men"
Lycurgus decrees "women should take as much trouble over physical fitness as men...offspring would be more sturdy" - 17LYCURGUS- Herodotus"Spartan government was put under a sound basis"
Temple built in his honour
Dephi priestesses greeted him as divine
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