Sparta
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- Spartiate
- Spartan citizen
- kleros
- allotment of land given to Spartiates and farmed by helots
- perioeci
- dwellers around
- mothocles
- helots who were 'adopted' as playmates and foster-brothers of Spartan boys
- Peleponnese
- southern peninsula of Greece, connected to mainland by isthmus
- hypomeiones
- Spartans who lost their citizenship by failing agoge or not contributing to syssitia
- Delphic Oracle
- shrine located at Delphi where ancient Greeks consulted priestesses for advice or prophecies
- neodamodes
- helots who were given their freedom
- Paidonomos
- guardian who supervised education of young Spartan boys
- Lycurgus
- Spartan law-giver
- polis
- an independent Greek city-state
- agoge
- education, training and discipline system of Spartan boys
- partheniai
- illegitimate children of helot mothers and Spartiate fathers
- Ekklesia
- general assembly
- acclimation
- Spartan way of voting by clapping or cheering
- pythioi
- appointed to ask Delphic Oracle questions and bring answers back to Sparta
- Gerousia
- council of elders (gerontes)
- krypteia
- secret police made up of youths to keep helot population in check
- bibasis
- rump jumps, an exercise performed by Spartan women
- tresantes
- Spartans who had lost their citizenship due to cowardice in battle
- syssitia
- public messes
- eirens
- Spartan youths around 19 who supervised younger boys
- helot
- state-owned serfs
- Great Rhetra
- directions on how Sparta was to be organised
- homoioi
- equals
- obai
- villages
- Ephor
- cheif magistrate of Sparta