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6. Which source wrote at around 60-100AD?

  • Plutarch
  • Aristophanes
  • Diodorus
  • Tyrtaeus

7. Which king led the Greek army at the Battle of Thermopolyae?

  • Ariston
  • Leotychidas
  • Leonidas
  • Cleomenes

8. How many lots of land does Plutarch say Sparta was divided into during the Lycurgan reforms?

  • 50,000
  • 9,000
  • 900
  • 10,000

9. What was the Spartan education system called?

  • The gerousia
  • The kryptaeia
  • The agoge
  • The apella

10. Which king was found sitting on a sock of money after being bribed?

  • Leotychidas
  • Leonidas
  • Cleomenes
  • Doreius

11. Which of these political bodies was NOT put in place during the Lycurgan reforms but came later on?

  • The Ephors
  • The assembly
  • The gerousia
  • The dual kingship

12. Which Spartan king was described by Herodotus as "not quite right in the head"?

  • Theopompus
  • Cleomenes
  • Anaxandrides
  • Demaratus

13. Which of the sources was a Spartan general?

  • Thucydides
  • Tyrtaeus
  • Diodorus
  • Herodotus

14. Which of these is NOT a source we can use in studying Sparta?

  • Xenophon
  • Aristagoras
  • Aristophanes
  • Herodotus

15. Which of these is NOT a state in the Peloponnese?

  • Argos
  • Corinth
  • Aegina
  • Arcadia