Spartans received a fresh supply of water from which river?

By 750 BCE, the five villages that unified to form Sparta were...

In the 5th century BCE, who wrote that "Sparta was such an insignificant place that in future times there would be no ruins to remind people that it had ever existed"? *

Thucydides quote about significcance

A market place for trade and social life was called an ?

Which Spartan port provided shellfish for dye to colour clothing?

An Athenian poet from 5CE was known as

The monarchic aspect of Spartan government was known as the:

The aristocratic aspect of Spartan government was known as the:

Which of the following kings was part of the Agiad royal family?

According to Herodotus, which TWO social groups attended the funeral of a Spartan king?

How many ephors (magistrates) were elected each year?

Another term that best describes a "Spartiate" (equal) is

What was the approximate ratio of Spartans to helots? *

What were the THREE requirements that made someone a Spartiate?

What was the main purpose of the syssition?

What does the term perioikoi mean?

Why did the perioikoi most likely accept their inferior position in Sparta?

What does Thucydides suggest Spartan society was based on?

How were helots different to Athenian slaves?

What institution was used to control the helots?

Why was helot bravery a mixed blessing?

Men who were denied full Spartan citizenship and excluded from the ranks of the homoioi, and who were the sons of an illegitimate union between a Spartiate and a helot woman were known as

Name 2 Spartan Festivals

Standard fighting formation

Men carrying heavy armour and weappns, primary fighters

Shield

Pressfield on paintings on hoplons

Body Armour

Spear and sword

Tyraeus poem on army

Devisions of the army

Soldiers who guarded the king in battle

Euripides on Laconian geography

Bordering ranges of Laconia

Resources of Laconia

Defensive centre for invasions

Sanctuary of Spartan goddess

Plutarch on the legitimacy of Lychurgus

Origins of dual kingship

Roles of the kings

Gerousia

Ephors

Ekklesia/ apella

Plot of land

Plutarch - Women

Xenophon - Lychurgus - Women

Evidence of boars as natural resource

Euripedes on geography and resources of Sparta

Strabo on natural resources

Sanctuary to spartan king and bride

Religious shrine that saw the hyakinthia

Sources for Lychurgus

Lychurgus' inspiration for change

Author of the Life of Lychurgus

Most important changes made by Lychurgus, as accodring to Plutarch

Term for good order and good government

Herodotus on Lychurgus

Plutarch - Lychurgus - Arts

Xenophon - Lychurgus - general way of life

Herodotus on role of kings

Herodotus on religious sacrifice - role of king

Funeral of the king - As according to Herodotus

Types of government in Sparta

Xenophon on Ephors

Aristotle on gerousia and bribery/ corruption

Gerousia initiation

Requirements for male citizenship

Privileges of homoios

Plutarch - Spartiate - Kleros

Dwellers around

Jobs and duties of Periokoi

Periokoi archaelogical evidence

Herodotus on Periokic war inclusion

Plutarch on inferiors

Thucydides - Helots

Plutarch - Helots

Finely on Helots

Population of Helots

Secret police

Evidence of Hoplite grooming and attire

Infantry attire

Aristotle on women and land management

Xenophon on womens education

Archealogical evidence of women - religion and women's clothing

Plutarch on agoge and education

Plutarch - Agoge

Aristotle on kleros and economy

Iron ore weapons

Pottery

Religion evidence

City state patron

Goddess concerned with growth and fertility

Evidence of Karneia festival

Stages of Hyakinthia

Karneia

Gymnopaedia

Evidence of bronze making

Ivory and bone carving

Bronze making technique

Quote on pottery and painted vessels

Laconia 1 - Style of 7th century

Laconia 2 - Early 6th century

Laconia 3 - Late 6th century

Source for architecture
NOTE: architecture was minimal and merely functional

description of sanctuary of artemis orthia architecture

Alkman quote

Plutarch -View and validity

Herodotus - view and validity

Thucydides

Aristotle - views and reliability

Pausanias