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Lykourgos
System of training
Social structures. Emphasis on
equality
Spartan Upbringing:
Disposal of defective newborns
In packs from age 7
Spartan Upbringing:
More militaristic training from
age 20
Training of girls
Living in a syssition (≈ mess)
from age 20
Restrictions on movement
Lakonia
Peloponnese
Free neighbours (perioikoi)
Messenia
Helots (effectively slaves)
Spartan Government:
Two kings
Five ephoroi (sing. ephor)
Gerousia (council of 30)
Assembly of Spartan citizens
Chilon (ephor in 556 BC)
Issue of Dorian origins
Diplomacy with careful military
intervention (e.g. Athens in
510 BC)
546 BC Persians asserting control
on east coast of Aegean
525 BC Persians take Egypt,
move into N. Africa
514 BC Persians extend influence
into Thrace and Macedon
506 BC Kleomenes of Sparta fails to take
Athens
490s BC Quarrel between Kings Demaratus
and Kleomenes of Sparta drives
Demaratus to Persian court
Peloponnesian League
(Not including Argos)
Plato (d. 348 BC), Republic
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
367-347 BC Studies under Plato
342-c. 339 BC Tutor to Alexander the Great
335 BC Opens school at Athens
323 BC Flees to Chalcis
Various works incl. Politics