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In these notes, I have incorporated both detailed information and reliable sources that you can use in your exams and assignments! For more insight, I have included the following topics:
- Geographical Setting, Natural Features and Resources of Ancient Sparta
- Significant Sites: Sparta
- Social Structure and Political Organisation
- The Great Rhetra: The Issue of Lycurgus
- Roles and Privileges of Two Kings
- Government: Ephorate, Gerousia, Ekklesia
- Social Structure: Spartiates, Periokoi, Inferiors, Helots
- Education System: agoge, syssitia, composition of army
- Control of Helots: The Military, Syssitia, Krypteia
- Role and Status of Women; Land Ownership, Inheritance, Education
- The Economy
- Land Ownership: Agriculture, Kleroi, Helots
- Economic Roles of the Periokoi and Helots
- Economic Exchange: use of iron bars, trade
- Cultural Life
- Gods and Goddesses: Artemis Orthia, Poseidon, Apollo
- Myths and Legends: Lycurgus and the Dioscuri
- Festivals: Hyakinthia, Gymnopaedia, Karnia
- Religious Role of the Kings
- Funerary Customs and Rituals
- Art: Sculpture, Painted Vases, Bone and Ivory Carving
- Architecture: Amyklaion, Menelaion, The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
- Writing and Literature: Alcman and Tyrtaeus
- Greek writers' views of Sparta: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Pausanias, Plutarch
- Everyday Life: Daily Life and Leisure Activities, Food and Clothing, Marriage Customs
- Occupations
NOTE: THIS IS THE ENTIRE SYLLABUS WITH SOURCES
Added January 2023