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What year was the battle of Marathon?
490 BC -
What year was the battle of Thermopylae
480 BC -
From what age did boys start training in the Agoge and what age did they stop?
start-7
stop-21 -
If a male Spartan baby was deemed unfit by the Gerosia, what happened to it?
The baby would be placed at the base of MT Taygetus to see if it would survive or die of exposure. -
What is the item of clothing given to Male Spartan boys when they reach a certain age in the Agoge and how many times a year would they be given it?
A red cloak
Once a year -
Boys were underfed and were encouraged to what?
steal -
Why were the boys underfed?
to get them used to hunger so it wouldn't trouble them during battle. -
At what age would a Spartan boy enter into a relationship with a young Spartan man?
age 12 -
The relationship between the boy and the young male was erotic according to who?
Plutarch -
At what age were some of the boys allowed to become part of the Crypteia?
18
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