WILLIAM BARRON – YEAR 12 – ANCIENT HISTORY GREECE: SPARTAN SOCIETY TO THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA 371 BC (25 MARKS) NOTES; (A) What was the ephorate? Members of the government who kept watch over the actions of the kings an assembly. Spartan magistrates‚ elected by the citizens. Provided over meetings and were responsible for execution of decrees. They held and shared great power with the kings. They did not have to knell before the kings‚ and the citizens held them in high esteem
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I’ve chosen my words carefully‚ Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same.” Moments later he executes the king’s messenger and his people by kicking them into a deep well. Behavior such as this would be a direct act of war‚ nonetheless‚ the Spartan King refused to allow for he and his people to be ridiculed by a foreigner. This scene is extremely appealing to viewers because it is a moment that exemplifies a strong king‚ a man who possesses a great deal of honor and pride in both his nation
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greater control over their property and over marriage decisions. But‚ even these women could not vote or hold public office. The lives of most of these women were centered around their households. In the Greek city-state of Athens from about 500 to 300 B.C.‚ women raised children and managed the spinning‚ weaving‚ and cooking in the household (Mahdavi‚ 2012). Wealthy women supervised slaves in these tasks‚ but they also did some of the work themselves. Respectable Athenian women seldom left their
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Different Types of Criticism Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert critiques John Carpenter’s movie “Halloween” which is about a psychotic killer who escapes a mental institution and goes one to wreak havoc on anybody. They show a scene of a young woman attacking Michael Meyers when he tries to kill her. Roger Ebert goes on to say that “the movie develops the movie characters as independent‚ intelligent‚ spunky‚ and interesting people. Halloween does not hate women” (Siskel). This sort of critiquing falls
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Asses the role of the periocoi + the helots in the Spartan economy * the periocoi were considered an integral part of the Spartan society. It could not run without them nor without their consent. * They commanded all the passes (including waterways) into Laconia‚ they provided half the Spartan army and appear also to have contributed to the chain of command. * Responsible for much of the trade and craft – mining‚ manufacture and commerce moreover‚ all mineral and marine resources
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History 102 Xenophon Xenophon‚ the author of the document‚ The Constitution of the Lacedaemonians‚ was born in 434 BC and became a middle-class Athenian but was later exiled to Spartan land (pg. 81). This document was written in order to keep record of the way life was lived back in Sparta where he fulfilled his exile. The law maker‚ Lycurgus‚ was a very creative and intuitive man but additionally he was fair and just. Lycurgus made laws that would honestly benefit everyone in Sparta to the fullest
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revolved learning and knowledge. When Spartan boys were being trained for an army‚ Athenian boys were being trained for life. Sparta was a city-state based on strict military ruling. Lives of Spartans revolved around military. The education given was meant to create Spartans into soldiers. Not only were the Spartans raised to be military-minded‚ but they were also expected to be a disciplined marching army. The strict rules of the government made it so that every Spartan was to be physically fit. Those
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men and women were forced to train from early on. Since the men comprised the army they received the most difficult and brutal training imaginable. The Spartan way of life tells us that living in ancient Greece meant living in a hostile region. City-states were in relatively close proximity to one another and therefore clashed often. The Spartans reflect for us the extreme necessity of a standing army. From their society we know that Greece was a very conflict-ridden part of the world. Since the
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governments‚ education systems‚ people’s rights and childcare. The Spartans had a very different view on how their city should be run compared to the Athenians‚ their education systems taught the children of their cities completely different things‚ the Spartans being much more military-based and the Athenians being focused on the arts. The people of the two cities were entitled to very different rights too‚ for both men and women. The Spartan government as an oligarchy‚ which is a government “ruled by
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were treated differently to spartiate men‚ they were not allowed to do majority if things that the Spartan men did‚ such as hunting‚ working‚ and most leisure activities such as watching cockfighting or boar fighting. Woman were to stay at home and do home duties such as cooking‚ cleaning and ultimately look after the children. Women were expected to raise children and to make sure they learn the Spartan way of life. woman were able to compete in athletics‚ mostly running events‚ they also enjoyed dancing
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