Detailed Band 6 notes - includes evidence (quotes and archaeology) and analytical points.
Based on the topic's HSC syllabus:
Survey: • The historical and geographical context, including; o geographical setting, natural features, and resources of ancient Sparta o significant sites: Sparta
Focus of study:
• Social structure and political organisation, including:
o the Great Rhetra: the issue of Lycurgus
o roles and privileges of the two kings
o government: ephorate, gerousia, ekklesia
o social structure and occupations: Spartiates, periokoi, ‘inferiors’, helots
o the Spartan army: training (agoge), composition
o control of the helots: the military, syssitia, krypteia
o role and status of women: land ownership, inheritance, education
• The economy, including:
o land ownership: agriculture, kleroi, helots
o technology: weapons, armour, pottery
o economic roles of the periokoi and helots, economic exchange: use of iron bars, trade
• Religion, death, and burial, including:
o gods and goddesses: Artemis Orthia, Poseidon, Apollo
o myths and legends: Lycurgus and the Dioscuri
o festivals: Hyakinthia, Gymnopaedia, Karneia
o religious role of the kings
o funerary customs and rituals
• Cultural and everyday life, including:
o art: sculpture, painted vases, bone, and ivory carving
o architecture: Amyklaion, Menelaion, the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
o writing and literature: Alcman and Tyrtaeus
o Greek writers’ views of Sparta: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Pausanias, Plutarch
o leisure activities, marriage customs
