PLUTARCH SOURCES

“Lycurgus permitted no one to make a proposal but the kings and the ephors”

“(Spartans) saw digarchy as the one that was undiluted and dominant.”

 “Renunciation of excessive authority and the related resentment”

 Land reforms were “revolutionary”

 “wealth had poured completely into just a few hands”

 “to expel arrogance, envy, crime, luxury…wealth and prosperity”

 “seek to be first only in merit”

 “rent of 70 medimm of barley” 

“They had enough food to keep them in proper fitness and health, and they would need…