citizenship requirements were linked to the strict military requirements, corruption and unequal land distribution, which reduced the number of male Spartans in the population, causing
Spartan society holds its genesis in the migration of Dorian tribespeople to the fertile land of the Peloponnese. Following the end of the 9th century BCE, these tribes expanded their territorial claims by force, conquering the adjacent region of Messenia. Following the second Messenian War in 668 BCE, lawgiver Lycurgus proclaimed the Great Rhetra upon consultation with the Delphic Oracle; Tyrtaeus accounts for this in his 7th century BCE poetry ’Eunomia’. However, the romantic nature of Tyrtaeus’
(80). After this, Darius decided to build up an army to attack the mainland Greeks (“Making Europe” 80). This attack on Greece, known as the Battle of Marathon, was the first Persian invasion of Greece (“Making Europe” 81). Without any help from the Spartans, the Athenians had defeated the Persians with minimal Athenian casualties, as mentioned in Making Europe, “The final toll was 6,400 Persian dead to 192 Athenians.” (81). This film is based in the Greece 480 B.C.E., after the death of King Darius
The Spartans did not heed Archidamus’ warning that “unless we can either beat them at sea, or deprive them of the revenues which feed their navy, we shall meet with little but disaster.”8 From the beginning, Sparta should have developed an alternative course of action, a branch plan in modern American military terms, to execute if
Archaeological evidence collected in ancient Laconia reveals great insight into the role and status of Spartan women until 371 BC. A compilation of written sources shows the unique treatment of women in Sparta compared with that of other ancient Greek societies. This treatment differs the economic, religious, marital, reproductive and social responsibilities from those of gender archetypes. As men were away at war and occupied with training in the agoge, women were involved in trading, agriculture
Gods, these cities differed largely in many ways. Both Athens and Sparta formed a government that consisted of assemblies and voting. Athens allowed a large number of citizens to participate and vote on new laws. Every day the Council of 500 would meet. If the council wanted to pass a new law, they proposed it to The Assembly. The Assembly could not pass a law unless 6,000 citizens showed up to vote. Men were allowed to voice their opinions and debate issues. This type of governing gave all citizens
Brasidas was a hugely influential and inspirational Spartan general renowned for his courage and efficiency. Fellow Spartans aspired to emulate his character, which was the source of much awe across all of Greece. In fact, it is actually Brasidas’s reputation outside of Sparta which warrants more significant study due to its significant effect on the Peloponnesian War. On the subject, Thucydides writes, “The present valor and conduct of Brasidas, which was known by experience to some, by hearsay
“Fight with your head, then you fight with your heart.” (1) is the epitome of what the Spartans lived by. They were the most courageous and honorable soldiers in history and this was shown in the Battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas, the king of sparta, is the leader of this army whom are 300. He was well respected and honored by many because he showed so much bravery and strength as a leader. This battle was between the Persians and the Greeks who both fight to protect what’s theirs. The leader of the
Spartan Women prove the old saying, behind every great man is a great women, to be true. Everyone has heard of the Spartan warrior men and their courageous battles. What about the women that stood behind those men, the ones who birthed those men, married those men? Spartan women helped to shape, protect, and form the society that they lived in. The women in Sparta were strong. They birthed warriors. They were warriors themselves. “They also underwent an intensive physical training program, which
Xenophon wrote about the number of ranks for both the Thebans, fifty deep, and the Spartans, twelve deep. He also wrote about the Thebans amassing on the left to attack the Spartans on the right and the role that cavalry played in the battle. Xenophon did not mention Epameinondas in the battle of Leuktra or any innovations of battle tactics that he employed nor did any other contemporary
Persians alone, and knew in order to defend their homeland they would have to unite. A unity of command was agreed upon; King Leonidas of Sparta was chosen to lead the Greek forces. He was chosen to lead because of the unsurpassed warring abilities the Spartans were so well known for made him perfect for the objective of stopping the Persians. Xerxes and his army landed on the Greek shores of Thermopylae sometime in the summer of 480 BC. The Persian army numbered somewhere around 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers
Sparta to bow down under king Xerxes rule. Leonidas, the leader of the Spartan army, goes to the Ephors, ancient priests with leprosy, to get permission to go to war with Persia (Gordon). Even though Leonidas knew that the Persian army had thousands of soldiers, he went on to battle with only 300 men showing great bravery. He knows that it is certainly a battle that no Spartan will survive, but he wants to convince the Spartan council to unite the city-states around them to fight Persia to keep his
Athens, allowing it to establish a Mediterranean empire, and export its culture and government to the rest of Greece (I.18.2, I.6.3). This serves to unify the scattered Ionian and Doric cities under the umbrella of the Hellenes culturally where the Spartan campaign to remove tyrants unifies it politically by giving Greeks relative freedom and subordinating it uniformly to the law, and the joint coalition against the Persians ultimately secured it militarily (I.
of paper ... ...ation, which goes to say that men were initially the dominating group and killing young girls created a greater imbalance in sex ratio, while in Sparta, men were lacking since they were always being killed in war, which allowed Spartan women to “inherit all of her fathers land” and become extremely wealthy (121). While Sparta was “admired in peace and dreaded in war”(102), Athens was admired for their values of education and intellect. The two cities surely obtained different values
strengthening their wings. This strategy is what brought victory, and in turn, was a moral victory for the Athens and eradicated the impression that Persians were unbeatable. Th... ... middle of paper ... ...he Persian army, which gave way for the Spartans to shine at Plataea. So without the Athenian naval ships fighting, the war would have been lost as the Greek superior hoplites would have been outweighed by the incredible numbers of the Persians. The war against the Persians was won by both the
governmental system worked. The Spartans were divided into three different groups, there were native-born Spartans, there was a group of non-Spartans called the Periokoi, and there was the slaves called the Helots. "The Periokoi were free non-Spartan men that
sociological concepts to show how the Spartans lived and conquered as warriors. It used Racism, Identity, Sexism, Dehumanization, Discrimination, and Age Stratification to show why it was okay for a culture to abandon children with disfigurements and why they did so. It also tells why people were so upset about how racist it was. The movie is a good example of how sexism is used in their culture mainly against their woman. And identity because if you are a Spartan then you should have been a very strong
Thucydides famously claims that the war started “because the Spartans were afraid of further growth of Athenian power, seeing as they did have the greater part of Hellas was under the control of Athens”. The two main protagonists from opposing sides Lysander and Alcibiades had the most influential impact on the end of the war. Lysander was appointed Spartan navarch for the Aegean Sea in 407 and undertook the major project of creating a strong Spartan fleet which could take on the Athenians and their allies
Women in Sparta In the Spartan community, everything was aimed towards the betterment of the society as a whole. Spartan boys trained as warriors beginning at the age of seven. The women were given the most important task: creating warriors. From a young age, Spartan girls were trained in athletics such as running, wrestling, and other physical sports. While the boys were training to become warriors, the girls were trained to be healthy and athletic mothers. It was believed that a strong woman
Firstly, Athenians are truly brave without the need of grueling yet ineffective training regimes: “The Spartans, from their earliest boyhood, are submitted to the most laborious training in courage; we pass our lives without all these restrictions, and are just as ready to face the same dangers as they are” (Thucydides, page 146, Section 39, lines 7-11). Sparta’s