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Mind Map by PetrinaluvsJaySean, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by PetrinaluvsJaySean
over 11 years ago
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Role of Spartan kings
- Military
- Supreme commander of the army
- One led the campaign, other stayed in Sparta
- Right to declare war but never did.
- In battle had the absolute right of deciding life or death
- 2 ephors accompanied each king and kept a watch on him
- Punished if campaign failed
- Each king had a bodyguard of a hundred hand picked men
- Aristotle refered to kings as "hereditary generals"
- Supreme commander of the army
- Religious
- Chief priests
- Intermediaries between gods and men. They held their office as long as gods were happy
- If things went wrong the kings were to blame
- Every ninth year the ephors looked in the skies for a sign of the god's approval for disapproval
- Kings were priests of Zeus Lacedaemonios and Zeus Uranois
- Each month they offered sacrificies to Apollo for the city
- Before campaigns they sacrificed to Zeus. At the frontier they sacrificed to Zeus and Athena
- Kings appointed two pythioi to consult the Delphic oracle and report on the oracle's directions
- Chief priests
- Judical
- Decided on the marriages of orphan heirnesses.
- Controlled all matters concerning public roads
- Controlled all the adoption of children
- Unable to finalise a peace treaty but could establish arrangements and conditions for ratification by the assembly.
- Decided on the marriages of orphan heirnesses.
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