c. 1200 B.C.Collapse of Bronze Age Sparta

Arrival of First Dorians in Laconia

c. 800 B.C.?Political Unification of Four Obes of Sparta

775-750 B.C.Traditional date for Lycurgus

754 B.C.First ephor recorded

736-716 B.C.FIRST MESSENIAN WAR

c. 720-670 B.C.Reign of Theopompus (Eurypontid)

706 B.C.Conspiracy of the Partheniai

Colonization of Taras (Tarentum)

c. 700-665 B.C.Reign of Polydorus (Agiad)

676 B.C.Great Rhetra: Political Reforms in Sparta

669 B.C.Battle of Hysiae

668-657 B.C.SECOND MESSENIAN WAR

c. 650 B.C.?Invention of coinage in Lydia

c. 620-600 B.C.Aegina mints first silver staters

600 B.C.Spartans reduce Pylos and Methone

600-580 B.C.Increasing austerity reflected in excavations of the temple of Artemis Orthia

c. 580-565 B.C."Battle of Fetters": Spartan defeat at Tegea

Tegean-Spartan Alliance: Origin of Peloponnesian League

556 B.C.Chilon as ephor

545 B.C.Battle of Champions: Sparta defeats Argos Spartan Annexation of Cynuria

THE SPARTAN CONSTITUTION, c. 500 B.C.

  KINGSHIPOVERSEESBOARD OF FIVE EPHORS

2 hereditary Annual Office

kingsChief Executive Board

GEROUSIA or COUNCILELECTS APELLA or ASSEMBLY

28 members plus two kingsAll Spartan Citizens

60 yrs. of age & fullSUMMONS,30 yrs. of age & full citizenship ADVISES,citizenship based on

& CANmembership in tribe,

VETOobe, phratry, and

participation in the

Lycurgan program

Dr. Kenneth W. Harl
(Ph.D., Yale University 1978; prof.)
Classical Greece, Rome and Byzantium
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