CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Croesus, Oligarchy, Spartan Constitution
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Lycurgus, whether or not it is true, will help the rest of sparta to accept it these figures become legendary positive people who are attributed to many things that may not all be necessarily true. Must be careful not to take accounts at face value the use of their names were used as propaganda in order to legitimize things. Solon poetry is attributed to him comes up in herodotus" history not mentioned in thucydides. Mentioned in the constitution of the athenians by aristotle or one of his students not always believed to be actually written by aristotle himself. Modified the standard values of coinage however, there is no coinage in. Areopagus to guard the laws, just as previously it had been guardian of the constitution. Areopagus [he] established another council besides, consisting of 400 men, 100 chosen from each of the four tribes.
