Oliganthropia

Question 1

What is the Spartan mirage ?

Answer 1

Idealised image of Sparta as a model of virtue, discipline and simplicity

Question 2

What is oliganthropia

Answer 2

People shortage

Question 3

Sparta ‘was destroyed through oliganthropia’

Answer 3

Aristotle politics

Question 4

Why did sparta send the Atheninas back in 464BC

Answer 4

To stop them spreading revolutionary ideas / democracy

Thucydides

Question 5

‘Almost two fits of the whole country’s owned by women’

Answer 5

Aristotle politics book 2

Women gaining more power, and that means that the number of Spartan men is decreasing as they can not afford to

Question 6

‘War brought relief from their training for war’

Answer 6

Plutarch Lykourgus 22

Question 7

‘Anyone who cannot pay this tax does not belong ‘

Answer 7

Aristotle book 2

Question 8

What killed of alot of Spartans in 464BC

Answer 8

The earthquake

Question 9

What was the benefit of Cleon and Brasidas dying at Amphipolis

Answer 9

They were the two ‘most opposed to peace’ Thucydides 5.16