This. Is. SPARTA!
The peak that dominates the Laconian landscape
What is Mount Taygetus?
State-owned serfs
Who are the helots?
What is the agoge?
An allotment of land given to Spartan citizens
What is kleros?
Famous battle where King Leonidas was killed
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
The probably lawgiver who created Spartan society as we know it
Who is Lycurgus?
The public mess where men would take their meals
What is the syssitia/syssition?
What is bibasis?
The 'dwellers around'
Who are the perioikoi?
The Spartan secret police
What is the krypteia?
What is the Great Rhetra?
Council of elders plus both kings
What is the gerousia?
What is the 'kidnapping of the bride'?
This was supposed to discourage Spartans obtaining wealth and engaging in any form of 'mechanical art' (Plutarch)
What is the iron bar economy?
Military alliance of city-states headed by Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian League?
The ruling families in Spartan society from which the kings came
Who are the Agiads and Eurypontids?
Spartan poets who wrote about life in Sparta
Who are Tyrtaeus and Alcman?
Having babies and raising healthy children
What is the main role of women?
Large bronze object found far away from Sparta which provides evidence of trade, cultural and military life
What is the Vix krater?
What is murex?
A religious festival dedicated to the god Apollo and his lover (who was killed when he was hit in the head with a discus)
What is the hyakinthia?
These artefacts are found in and around the remains of shrines and temples in Sparta
What are votive offerings?
Who is Xenophon?
Legendary twins and brothers of Helen; also known as the Dioscuri
Who are Castor and Pollux?
The religious festival that seemed to often prevent the Spartans from participating in major conflicts
What is the Karneia?