Show Cause aspects of the NSW Bail Act
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We have all been the victim of some form of discrimination at one point or
another. However this is the face of injustice via the Victorian justice
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8 years ago
You can view it, but the paragraphing? @.@ Oh Mylanta.
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ReplyDelete"Further, the two constitutions are similar; for the office of the Ephors is the same as that of the Cretan Cosmi, the only difference being that whereas the Ephors are five, the Cosmi are ten in number. "
I thought one of the issues with the ephorate was that they weren't initially included in the Great Rhetra, but here it seems thay Aristotle is crediting Lycurgus with copying the Cretean Cosmi and integrating the ephorate into the constitution accordingly.
Who first said (other than Antiquity >.>) that the ephorate weren't part of the original Rhetra?
Good question...and I have no idea! The Great Rhetra is incredibly general in its notion of what the Spartan political system should encompass. I think that the truth is, the Spartan system had already evolved to a certain degree by the 7th century BC, and the Lycurgus/Great Rhetra myth was created to retrospectively legitimise that system. So the Spartans probably borrowed the idea of the ephors from the Creteans, and then later on, in their legend, asserted that they had come up with the idea. Sparta was as good at borrowing ideas, and then calling them their own, as any other society in history...(now who did create the first democracy?)
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