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Vintage festival associated with gathering the summer grapes around August.The staphylodromi -grape cluster runners chased a man wearing a garland.To catch him meant good luck for harvest.They missed the battle of Marathon and Thermopyloe
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The Carneia
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Celebrated in July an athletic and dancing competition to show the young warrior physical strength and ability to endure pain.Also associated with Apollo in gratitude for military success.Another endurance event was the snatching of the cheeses
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Gymnopadia
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Probably originally a festival for a vegetarian deity.In later times it was in honour of Apollo and his youthful lover , Hynkinthes accidentally killed by Apollo. The blood formed the hyacinth flower.This is became a ritual for the dead (hyakinthos) and a festival for life (apollo)
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Hyakinthia
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The most sacred place contained an ancient statue of Apollo at Amyclae , armed with a bow and a spear within the city area Athena Poliouches was the most important god
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Sanctuaries
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Castor and Polydeuces
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the Dioscouri
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main sources of Spartan religion
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Homer Illiad
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the oral rulers believed to attended by Lycurgus hearing the words of Apollo
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The Great Rhetor
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means good law/order
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euniomia
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the law
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nomos
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means dwellers around , provided much of Sparta craft and trade and assisted in military and religious festivals
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Periokos
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group of 28 , 60+ ,power resided with them having power of veto (overruling) and elected by public vote
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gerousia
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had administrative power , public magistrate to administer laws , elected the Spartiate assembly for 1 year
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Ephors
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pass argoae , be male , pay mess dues and have full Spartiate parents
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Citizen Assembly / homoi
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the military alliance between Sparta and other cities such as Corinth , Megura and Tegea
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The Peloponnesia League
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the manual labourer for Spartan society , owned by the Spartan state not individuals , couldn't be freed or traded , paid large sum of their produce to their owns ,every year would be culled every year for ones with leadership skills , possibly originated for war pensioners of Messene conquests and had their own rituals and communities
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Helot
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dedicated to Apollo and Hyakinthos , constructed as throne , indication Spartan innovating in Ionicides ideas in the 6th century B.C. , 20th century excavation revealed a base of the throne and retraining wall
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Amyklaim
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shrine to Helen and Menelaus , a square step -pyramid structure
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Menelaioni
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temple arranged near an alter , close to the Euredas River , used in the snatching of the cheeses festival
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Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
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remains are largerly removed , situated on the accroplis (biggest hill) , a fine building with bronze gates
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The temple to Athena of the City
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man who gave the laws and social structure to Sparta
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Lycurgus
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young men assigned to kill helots every year at darkness with qualities of leadership
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krypteia
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a city state of ancient greece
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polis
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domiance by one country or social group
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hegemony
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the main areas of Sparta
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Laconia
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the outer areas of Sparta
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Messene
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a public open space used for assemblies and markets
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agora
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primeval god of the sky
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ourianos
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the oracle of a god provided by stoned chick
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pythians
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educator
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paidagogos
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a homoei who lost their citizenship
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hypomeniones
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a someone who didn't pass the agoge , fail to pay mess fees or who cowardly in battle
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moth aces
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the mess hall when 15-30 men ate
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sussition
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citizen solider used rectangular formation to push the opposition back
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hoplite phalanx
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instrument with double pipe with double reed
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aulos
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having columns on all sides
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peripteral
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