199archery in war, 87, 177, 179
aristocracy, aristocratic ethos of early Hellas,
81–82, 89–95, 147, 152, 179–81
army, Spartan
cavalry, 10–11, 33, 151, 158
enōmotíaı (sworn bands), 13, 153, 160
garrison duty, 24, 114, 157
hıppeîs (royal bodyguard), 25, 32–33,
49, 88–89, 130, 132, 157–58, 168,
179
hoplite warfare, 11, 19–21, 23, 27, 33,
80–97, 114, 132–33, 152, 159,
177–82
aspís (hoplite shield), 84–91, 178
antılabḗ and pórpax, 84–91
hereditary flute players, 23, 155–56
lóchos (regiment early on), 72,
102–3, 130, 174, 192
military revolution, 80–97, 182
móra (regiment later), 33
phalanx, 19–21, 23, 27, 80–97, 103,
152, 159, 177–82
Battle of the Champions, 33, 134
Battle of the Fetters, 115, 118, 188
Battle of the Great Trench, 94, 182
cavalry in archaic Greek warfare, 81, 85,
89–91, 176–77, 179, 181
chariot warfare in the Bronze Age and the
archaic period, 80–81, 89–91, 98, 106,
176–77, 179
constituent villages of Lacedaemon
Amyclae, xviii, 71–74, 77, 79, 174–76
cult of Apollo Hyakinthos, 74
Konosoura, 72, 74, 175
Limnai, 72, 74, 174–75
Eurypontid residence and graves,
72
Mesoa, 72, 74, 175
Pitana, 72–74, 174–75
Agiad residence and graves, 72Deuteronomy, book of, 17
Dipaea, battle of, 131
distinctive attributes of the Spartans, 1–63,
143–72
civic equality (status of Spartans as
hómoıoı: equals, peers), 10, 18, 24,
32, 34, 41, 55, 131, 136, 150, 162
eudaımonía (happiness, success), xiv,
52, 63, 121, 190
fear embraced, 11–13
homónoıa (likemindedness, civic
solidarity), 7–35, 40, 59–60, 149,
162
kalokagathía (gentlemanliness: nobility
and goodness), 10, 34, 150, 171
obedience to nómos (custom,
convention, law), 7, 12–13, 28–29,
31, 50–51, 65, 160, 170, 172
patriotism, 7–35
public-spiritedness, 7–35, 62
sharp distinction between the young
and the old, 5, 11–12, 14, 19–20,
22–24, 27, 36, 42, 49, 54–60, 67,
75, 87, 94, 101, 119, 127, 137, 151,
153, 155, 171, 175
sophrosúnē (moderation, temperance),
25, 30, 161