CLA388H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crypteia, Agoge, Ephor
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Snyder"s film is simply one more stratum in the process of a reception that is hundreds of years in the making. They were the biggest slave owners in greece. But at the same time, spartan women had an unusual level of rights. I couldn"t show them being quite as cruel as they were. I made them as cruel as i though a modern audience could understand. Agoge was also the technical term fo the comprehensive, centrally organized military education and socialization in sparta. 237-9) are supplemented by dedicatory inscriptions from the 4th century. Bc to the roman period in the sanctuary of orth(i)a. Spartan girls also received a state education, which was unusual elsewhere in greece, but apart from the heirs of the two royal families, only boys wee subject to the formal agoge. Lack of spartans likely due to most of the men always having to fight. Also, little excavation has been done in sparta.
