The Novel Political System in Sparta
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In Ancient Greece, Sparta dominates over other city-states by powerful hoplite army ability. Moreover, Thucydides states that “Sparta’s ability to dominate other polis derived from the stability of her own domestic arrangements.” It means arrangement of relations between the Spartans and the helots. The result of this arrangement is that the helots are important resource unavoidable for superior army. However, Sparta not only owns stability of domestic arrangements, but also the mere threat of tyranny led some polis to create quite novel political systems, especially the role of Gerousia and Ephors in balancing the power of the kings. Consequently, this situation brings to this article for study on political systems development that preventing the threat of tyranny and many enemies. This article uses historical approach to study and is presented by using narrative for expressing the picture of novel political system in Sparta.
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