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Plutarch, Lycurgus, 5.4


ἐπαρθεὶς δὲ τούτοις προσήγετο προσήγετο Cobet: προσῆγε.τοὺς ἀρίστους καὶ συνεφάπτεσθαι παρεκάλει, κρύφα διαλεγόμενος τοῖς φίλοις πρῶτον, εἶτα οὕτως κατὰ μικρὸν ἁπτόμενος πλειόνων καὶ συνιστὰς ἐπὶ τὴν πρᾶξιν. ὡς δ’ ὁ καιρὸς ἧκε, τριάκοντα τοὺς πρώτους ἐκέλευσε μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων ἕωθεν εἰς ἀγορὰν προελθεῖν ἐκπλήξεως ἕνεκα καὶ φόβου πρὸς τοὺς ἀντιπράττοντας. ὧν εἴκοσι τοὺς ἐπιφανεστάτους Ἕρμιππος ἀνέγραψε· τὸν δὲ μάλιστα τῶν Λυκούργου ἔργων κοινωνήσαντα πάντων καὶ συμπραγματευσάμενον τὰ περὶ τοὺς νόμους Ἀρθμιάδαν ὀνομάζουσιν.Thus encouraged, he tried to bring the chief men of Sparta over to his side, and exhorted them to put their hands to the work with him, explaining his designs secretly to his friends at first, then little by little engaging more and uniting them to attempt the task. And when the time for action came, he ordered thirty of the chief men to go armed into the market-place at break of day, to strike consternation and terror into those of the opposite party. The names of twenty of the most eminent among them have been recorded by Hermippus; but the man who had the largest share in all the undertakings of Lycurgus and cooperated with him in the enactment of his laws, bore the name of Arthmiadas.


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1. Tyrtaeus, Fragments, 1 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)

2. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.18.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.18.1. But at last a time came when the tyrants of Athens and the far older tyrannies of the rest of Hellas were, with the exception of those in Sicily, once and for all put down by Lacedaemon ; for this city, though after the settlement of the Dorians, its present inhabitants, it suffered from factions for an unparalleled length of time, still at a very early period obtained good laws, and enjoyed a freedom from tyrants which was unbroken; it has possessed the same form of government for more than four hundred years, reckoning to the end of the late war, and has thus been in a position to arrange the affairs of the other states. Not many years after the deposition of the tyrants, the battle of Marathon was fought between the Medes and the Athenians.
3. Plutarch, Agesilaus, 14.2, 19.2-19.3, 30.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 1.1-1.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.2. For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. 1.3. Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face and the expression of the eyes, wherein the character shows itself, but make very little account of the other parts of the body, so I must be permitted to devote myself rather to the signs of the soul in men, and by means of these to portray the life of each, leaving to others the description of their great contests. 1.3. This horse, at any rate, said Alexander, I could manage better than others have. And if thou shouldst not, what penalty wilt thou undergo for thy rashness? Indeed, said Alexander, I will forfeit the price of the horse. There was laughter at this, and then an agreement between father and son as to the forfeiture, and at once Alexander ran to the horse, took hold of his bridle-rein, and turned him towards the sun; for he had noticed, as it would seem, that the horse was greatly disturbed by the sight of his own shadow falling in front of him and dancing about.
5. Plutarch, Comparison of Pompey With Agesilaus, 1.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. Plutarch, Lycurgus, 5.3, 5.5-5.6, 6.1, 7.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5.3. Full of this determination, he first made a journey to Delphi, and after sacrificing to the god and consulting the oracle, he returned with that famous response in which the Pythian priestess addressed him as beloved of the gods, and rather god than man, and said that the god had granted his prayer for good laws, and promised him a constitution which should be the best in the world. 5.6. Among the many innovations which Lycurgus made, the first and most important was his institution of a senate, or Council of Elders, which, as Plato says, Laws, p. 691 e. by being blended with the feverish government of the kings, and by having an equal vote with them in matters of the highest importance, brought safety and due moderation into counsels of state. For before this the civil polity was veering and unsteady, inclining at one time to follow the kings towards tyranny, and at another to follow the multitude towards democracy; 6.1. So eager was Lycurgus for the establishment of this form of government, that he obtained an oracle from Delphi about it, which they call a rhetra. And this is the way it runs: When thou hast built a temple to Zeus Syllanius and Athena Syllania, divided the people into phylai and into obai, and established a senate of thirty members, including the archagetai, then from time to time appellazein between Babyca and Cnacion Probably names of small tributaries of the river Eurotas. and there introduce and rescind measures; but the people must have the deciding voice and the power.
7. Plutarch, Lysander, 8.4-8.5, 12.1, 19.3, 20.6, 20.8 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



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aegospotami Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
alexander the great Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 269
argos Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
aristocracy, aristocrats, aristocratic Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
assidui Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
athens, athenians Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
biography Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 269
caesar, julius Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 269
citizen Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
citizenship Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
civil strife Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
class, higher Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
class, lower Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
crete, cretan Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
democracy, ancient and modern, preconditions for Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
education Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
eunomia (eunomie) Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
euthune, hoplite Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
freedmen Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
games, olympic Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
great rhetra Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
helots Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
herodotus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
homer, homeric, elite bias of Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
hoplites Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
institution Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
joke Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 269
lycurgus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117; Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 269
lysander Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
messenia, messenians Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
metics Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
music Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
myth' Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 269
navy Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
oligarchy, oligarchs Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
omen Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
participation in government, military service and Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
plebeians Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
proletarii Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
religion Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
slavery, slaves Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
sparta, spartan Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
thetes, militarization of Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
thucydides Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
visible Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117
warfare Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 127
xenophon Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 117