HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Gerousia, Spartan Constitution, Helots
24 Dec 2017
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Sparta as an ideal state that is extremely well run- good laws/practices eunomia They don"t have a culture of decision in the public form. When we say early time we are talking about 8th century. We get two stories and the spartians constitution has more enifintity with the crete and. Orgins of the spartian state- walking on the land of man and god. What they do instead the take over the land that belongs to their neighbours. At some point sparta goes takes all of the messenia (they conquer all of that, that is a lot of territory) They now have to occupy this area, it is very had to occupy because you get resistance. The only colony they send out is to get rid of political dissidence. Spartians went to war because of messenians revolts. They are compared to donkeys there are being exploited. His poem- people are oppressed but they have to demonstrate their own willingness to participate.
