Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Classics - Community life in the Classical World: Option 1 - Sparta
- The Spartan State
- The geographical position of Sparta in Greece.
- Details of her policy towards and conquest of Messenia
- Sparta and other Greeks
- The nature and limitations of the evidence:
- Aristophanes, Xenophon and Plutarch on women and education.Aristotle on education and
government.
- Spartan attitudes to non-Spartans
- Sparta’s isolationism and the attitudes of other Greeks towards Sparta
- Social structure
- The Spartiatai
- the Periokoi (origins)
- the Helots (origins)
- The different duties and roles of each class
- The concept of Eunomia
- Culture/ Artistic achievements
- Poetry (the nature of the content of the poems of Tyrtaios)
- bronze works
- sculpture and pottery
- Government
- Eligibility, election, duties, responsibilities and limitations of:
- the Kings
- the Ephors
- the Gerousia
- the Ecclesia (Apella)
- Lykourgos
- The legend of his establishment as a leader in Sparta
- His contribution to education in Sparta.
- Education of boys
- The purpose of the agoge.
- The treatment of boys, from birth to joining the military messes.
- Games, discipline, food, clothing, organisation (platoons, eirenes)
- The role of the paidonomos
- Women
- Their upbringing
- Marriage
- Daily life
- Physical appearance
- Duties
- Land holding
- Attitude of other Greeks
- Military organisation
- The army’s organisation and fighting methods
- Training, appearance and equipment (particularly based on statuary)
- Accommodation
- The syssitia, krypteia
- The Spartan army in action
- An understanding of the basic facts on the heroism of Leonidas and the 300
- Candidates should be aware of the basic details of
the account in Herodotus: Histories, Book VII,
Chapters 207 to the end, including the role and
influence of Demaratus