FRSC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Helots, Debt Bondage, Mycenaean Greece
8 May 2018
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Sparta and Athens
The polis:
• Greek institution
o City and immediate hinterlands
• Common attributes
o Protected (valley, elevated land, hills)
o Temples
o Stadia
o Agora and political assembly area
• 323 BCE Philip the 2nd fought the Greeks and defeated them at cyranoia.
Sparta:
• Three classes:
o The equals – the alike; full legal rights, full political rights, brought up
to defend Sparta, kept hair long
o Periokoi – people aoud; esidet alies, people ho did’t hae full
rights but still an important part of society
o Helots – slae class, Myceaea’s, kept hai shot, ad ee euied
to reproduce.
• Political organization of society
o Two monarchs
o Two legal bodies
▪ Assembly
▪ Council
• Kings, 28 equals (older than 60 years of age), and 5
ephors (important overseers)
o Krypteia
Spartan Society:
• Militaristic
• Society: equals and helots
o Maintain power and justify bondage
• Militaristic social system:
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