HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Helots, Solonian Constitution, Hippeis
5 Jan 2018
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Proposition statement: (cid:498)lycurgus" reforms in sparta were more successful than those of solon in athens. (cid:499) Lycurgus believed by later greeks to have lived sometime in the 9th century bce. Reforms probably instituted during the 7th century. Xenophon, constitution of the lacedaemonaians (written in the 4th century bce) Plutarch, life of lycurgus (written in the 2nd century ce) Solon called upon by his fellow athenians in c. 594. Fragments of solon"s own poetry survives (cid:523)i. e. written in the early 6th century bce) Pseudo-aristotle, constitution of the athenians (written in the 4th century bce) Plutarch, life of solon (written in the 2nd century. Overpopulation / land hunger conquest of. Economic inequality among sparta citizens (wealth concentrated in the hands of a few) Rise of the aristocracy throughout the 7th century (popular assembly sank into oblivion) Threat of tyranny (e. g. cylon c. 632 bce) Not enough land / land and wealth increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few.
