021. Governing Spartans

Spartan History Podcast - A podcast by Steven

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EPISODE 21 GOVERNING SPARTANSWelcome back folks and to the first of what will be a series of episodes designed to explain the different facets of the Spartan world in the lead up to the Greco-Persian wars.This time its the governmental structures of Sparta that we'll be focusing on to see the various bodies responsible for Spartan law-making in action.It's popularly believed that Sparta was an oligarchic state, and to be fair by the time Xenophon and Aristotle penned their constitutions of th...

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