Year 12 Ancient - Sources on Sparta

Another bunch of ancient sources for your study purposes...this time on Sparta. I have included the full translation of Plutarch's Lycurgus just because it is so important.

Sources on Xerxes and the Persian Wars to follow...

You can access the Sparta sources here.

Year 12 Ancient - Ancient Writers on Lycurgus

As promised, here are some links to writings by Greek and Roman historians on the myth of Lycurgus:

Some excerpts by Xenophon

The entire text of Lycurgus by Plutarch

Passage from Aristotle's Constitution of the Lacedaemonians

Herodotus mentions Lycurgus in Book 1 of his Histories

Year 12 Ancient - Lycurgus

Hi Year 12. here is the Powerpoint we did today on Lycurgus. It includes some excerpts from Plutarch, Aristotle, Xenophon and Herodotus, which I will provide links for in a later post.