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Spartan Society/Status Quo, Government Structure - Coggle Diagram
Spartan Society/Status Quo
Army
Deception
Hegemon
Agoge (7-12-15-18)
18-20 = reserve
20 = full time member
20-50 = retirement
Largely supplemented by helots, perioikoi
30 = proper citizen
Hoplite (heavy infantry)
Phalanx
Weapons, hand to hand, music, dance (coordinating movements)
Eunomia = perfect state of being (homeostasis)
Monarchy
2 Kings (Agiad + Eurypontids) – religion + military
Ephors (5 Spartiates elected each year, 1 from each tribe) – Administrators
Gerousia (28 elders >60 + 2 kings) – Agenda + low setting
Ekklesia (General Assembly of Spartiates - males >30)
Oligarchy
Democracy (aligning w/Athens + helot uprising)
Lycurgus (mythical law-giver in mid 600s BC – Battle of Hysiae vs Argos)
'Great Rhetra' from Delphi
Religion
Key themes
State first
Fear of helot revolt
Economy
Syssitia (Syssition) 'Dining Clubs' – sense of community + homosexuality
Kleroi (kleros) – land allotments given at age 30
given responsibility over helots (still stated owned tho)
able to live w/wife
communist mentality – wealthier/prominent families got more
No money
economic exchange + then led bars = symbol of receipt (idea is less room for corruption, didn't work)
Women
produce healthy offspring
educated + physically trained
peplos – increase sexual desire to make better bebe
inherit land (1/3 of all Spartan land)
run state when spartan army at war
Government Structure