Part II - Ancient Societies: Greece - Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC
Students learn to:
- Ask relevant historical questions
- Locate, select and organise information from a range of sources to describe and analyse the key features of the ancient society
- Describe and evaluate the role and nature of key features of the ancient society
- Explain and assess the significance of historical factors contributing to change and continuity within the ancient society
- Evaluate the usefulness and reliability of sources
- Explain and evaluate differing perspectives and interpretations of the ancient society
- Plan and present the findings of investigations on aspects of the ancient society, analysing and synthesising information from a range of sources
- Communicate an understanding of relevant concepts, features and issues using appropriate oral and written forms.
Students learn about:
1. The geographical setting
1.1 The geographical setting, natural features and resources of ancient Sparta
1.2 Significant sites: Sparta
2. Social structure and political organisation
2.1 The issue of Lycurgus (the Great Rhetra)
2.2 Roles and privileges of the two kings
2.3 Government: ephorate, gerousia, ekklesia
2.4 Social structure: Spartiates, perioeci, ‘inferiors’, helots
2.5 Role of the Spartan army
2.6 Control of the helots: the military, syssitia, krypteia
2.7 Artisans, helots
2.8 Educational system: agoge
2.9 Role and status of women: land ownership, inheritance, education
3. The economy
3.1 Land ownership: agriculture, kleroi, helots
3.2 Technology: weapons, armour, pottery
3.3 Economic roles of the periokoi (‘dwellers around’) and helots
3.4 Economic exchange: use of iron bars, trade
4. Religion, death and burial
4.1 Gods and goddesses: Artemis Orthia, Poseidon, Apollo
4.2 Myths and legends: Lycurgus and the Dioscuri
4.3 Festivals: Hyakinthia, Gymnopaedia, Karneia
4.4 Religious role of the kings
4.5 Funerary customs and rituals
5. Cultural life
5.1 Art: sculpture, painted vases, bone and ivory carving
5.2 Architecture: Amyklaion, Menelaion, the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
5.3 Writing and literature: Alcman and Tyrtaeus
5.4 Greek writers’ views of Sparta: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Pausanias, Plutarch
6. Everyday life
6.1 Daily life and leisure activities
6.2 Food and clothing
6.3 Marriage customs
6.4 Occupations
- Ask relevant historical questions
- Locate, select and organise information from a range of sources to describe and analyse the key features of the ancient society
- Describe and evaluate the role and nature of key features of the ancient society
- Explain and assess the significance of historical factors contributing to change and continuity within the ancient society
- Evaluate the usefulness and reliability of sources
- Explain and evaluate differing perspectives and interpretations of the ancient society
- Plan and present the findings of investigations on aspects of the ancient society, analysing and synthesising information from a range of sources
- Communicate an understanding of relevant concepts, features and issues using appropriate oral and written forms.
Students learn about:
1. The geographical setting
1.1 The geographical setting, natural features and resources of ancient Sparta
1.2 Significant sites: Sparta
2. Social structure and political organisation
2.1 The issue of Lycurgus (the Great Rhetra)
2.2 Roles and privileges of the two kings
2.3 Government: ephorate, gerousia, ekklesia
2.4 Social structure: Spartiates, perioeci, ‘inferiors’, helots
2.5 Role of the Spartan army
2.6 Control of the helots: the military, syssitia, krypteia
2.7 Artisans, helots
2.8 Educational system: agoge
2.9 Role and status of women: land ownership, inheritance, education
3. The economy
3.1 Land ownership: agriculture, kleroi, helots
3.2 Technology: weapons, armour, pottery
3.3 Economic roles of the periokoi (‘dwellers around’) and helots
3.4 Economic exchange: use of iron bars, trade
4. Religion, death and burial
4.1 Gods and goddesses: Artemis Orthia, Poseidon, Apollo
4.2 Myths and legends: Lycurgus and the Dioscuri
4.3 Festivals: Hyakinthia, Gymnopaedia, Karneia
4.4 Religious role of the kings
4.5 Funerary customs and rituals
5. Cultural life
5.1 Art: sculpture, painted vases, bone and ivory carving
5.2 Architecture: Amyklaion, Menelaion, the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
5.3 Writing and literature: Alcman and Tyrtaeus
5.4 Greek writers’ views of Sparta: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Pausanias, Plutarch
6. Everyday life
6.1 Daily life and leisure activities
6.2 Food and clothing
6.3 Marriage customs
6.4 Occupations