POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Military Exercise, Making Money, Great Rhetra
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The clash of the two cities: sparta vs. athens. Plutarch is writing after a long time after lycurgus and solon, 900 years. City states: entities relatively small but focused on one city, land and population around the city as well. Roughly 750 city states in ancient greece, athens (one of the largest populations), Undeveloped city states, largely agriculture, politically independent (idealistic), This is sparta : situating sparta and reflections on lycurgus- the rhetra, the deeper purpose behind lycurgus" reforms: he thought that the happiness of an entire city, like that of single individual, depended on. 09/18/2013 the prevalence of virtue and concord within its own borders. How did sparta function: formal political institutions and law: ss. 6, 7, 13 the counsel of elders, check to the power of the king allowing regime to last longer than its neighbours with education, laws become written into ones character: foreign policy and immigration: ss.