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| Question | Answer |
| LYCURGUS- Xenophon | Greatly admired Lycurgus for building a flourishing Sparta "remarkably wise man" Laws laid out for "excellent order of things" |
| LYCURGUS- Plutarch | reforms from the oracle at Delphi "sweep away the existing order and to make a complete change to the constitution" |
| LYCURGUS- Michell | "cannot definitely affirm his existence but equally we cannot deny it" |
| LYCURGUS- Andrews | "Most successful frauds in history" |
| SPARTIATES | Plutarch: numbered 10 000 Herodotus: not all equal in wealth Plutarch: only legal profession was arms |
| HELOTS- Thucydides | "descendants of the ancient messenians" "enslaved in the great war" policy towards them was "bases entirely on the idea of security" |
| HELOTS- Plutarch | "treated the Helots harshly and cruelly" eg. made them get drunk to make a spectacle of them |
| HELOTS- 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" |
| ARMY- Plutarch | Phalanx looked like "a ferocious beast" long hair "make the handsome better looking and the ugly more frightening" |
| ARMY failures- Herodotus | Desserter at Thermopylae Battle Plataea- refusal to retreat |
| KRYPTEIA- Xenophon | "made frequent night raids and killed any helot they saw" |
| EDUCATION- Thucydides | "education was aimed at developing smart obedience, perseverance under stress and victory in battle" |
| EDUCATION- Plutarch | "Learnt to read and write no more than was necessary" |
| EDUCATION- Pausanias | "they fight hand to hand...bite and gouge out eyes" |
| WOMEN- Xenophon- function | Most important function was bearing children |
| WOMEN- 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" |
| LYCURGUS- Herodotus | "Spartan government was put under a sound basis" Temple built in his honour Dephi priestesses greeted him as divine |
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