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eunomia
good order
Agoge
Spartan education system
Paidonomos
Boy herd - official in charge of boys
Melas Zomos
Black soup
Bibasis
Dance involving kicks to the bottom
Homoioi
The equals - Spartan citizens
Helots
Slaves owned by the Spartan state
Perioikoi
Dwellers around - non-citizen craftsmen etc
Messenia
Territory conquered by the Spartans
Strategos
military general
Krypteia
Secret service - selective stage of education. May involve helot killing
Plataea
Major victory for Greeks in 479 BC, large number of Helots present
Mothakes
Non-Spartan foster brothers eg Lysander, Gylippus
Syssitia
Communal messes
Ephors
5 men elected annually to oversee the state
Hoplite
A citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek City-states.
Eiren
An adolescent boy who supervised younger boys
Phalanx
A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields
Polis
City-state
laconic
brief and to the point, witty speech
Apothetae
chasm in which unfit babies were thrown
Gymnopaedia
Spartan festival during which naked youths displayed their athletic and martial skills through the medium of war dancing. It was dedicated to Apollo.
Kalos Thanatos
beautiful death
Kleros
allotment of land given to Spartiates and farmed by helots
tresantes
Tremblers - Cowards who ran away from battle
Great Rhetra
the Spartan Constitution written by Lycurgus
andragathia
virtuous manhood
Gerousia
council of 30 elders, aged 60+
ecclesia
the assembly of all male citizens over 30
Probouleutic
matters discussed as a council before being taken to the assembly for voting
gerontocracy
rule by elders
nauarchos
naval commander
epistoleus
second in command of Spartan fleet
Oliganthropia
reduction in population of Spartiates
Spartiate
male spartan citizen
stasis
civil war
Sciritae
Non-Spartiate polis who provided an elite force of light infantry
Paides
Boys
Ephebes
young men of military age
Neodomodeis
'new polis men' - freed helots
Inferiors
Those not entitled to, or who had lost, citizenship
patrouchos
heiress
Brasideans
The freed helots who had campaigned with Brasidas and then fought as a unit at Mantinea
Polemarch
Senior military leader - one below the strategos
mora
Military unit led by the polemarch
harmost
A Spartan military governor or commander, placed over control of a foreign city