Sparta - Lacedaimonia

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Sparta - Lacedaimonia

• Set of Doric villages
• Spartiates - perioikoi
• Lykourgos - great rhetra
• Eunomia
• Agricultural - military aristocracy
• Messene from 735 BC

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Mixed constitution

• Two kings
• 5 ephors
• 28 executive council - gerousia
• Assembly
• Xenelasia
• helots

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Spartan education

• Exposure of infants
• Harsh training from seven years
• Krypteia war on helots
• Eating clubs syssitia
• By 540 B.C. Sparta dominated Peloponnesus

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Herodotus

• Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes
• Medes and Persians
• Demaratus (exiled king of Sparta)

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Thermopylae