>Sparta had a unique dual kingship >Barely gets mentioned

Just did research on Sparta (undergrad). Surprisingly there's not a lot of scholarship on specific things about Sparta, if you want you can check out Herodotus and his likely bullshit accounts

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>>2368945
2 kings plus the gerousia and the ephors, Sparta's government was complex as fuck.

>>2369402
>athenians think you've created the perfect society
>Xenophon, and only Xenophon, was a massive Spartaboo that means all Athenians felt that way

>>2368945
Many other biumvirates have existed in history

>>2369402
not to mention the popular assembly

>>2368945
spartan booklist
http://pastebin.com/3gtrXdsT
since a lot of spartan history is hard to separate from myth or exaggeration of outsiders, scholars are divided over the effectiveness of the dual kingship. Each position was filled by a different aristocratic dynasty and usually one king would be stronger would dominate the other (this was the case in rome two, you usually had a vigorous consul overshadow the other one). Most scholars agree that over time the kings lost a lot of their powers to the ephors and gerousia. Some goes as far as to say that they were figureheads. After military campaigns, for example, Kings were called to account for their actions and could be punished. It also wasn't unheard for ephors to bring kings to trial at home, possibly deposing them, but more fining them for one impropriety or another. But, again, a strongwilled king could push against the system and take on more powers for himself. The kings were also commanders-in-chief who led the spartan army into battle. Its also possible that on the field they had a lot of discretion to plan strategies and open negotiations. The spartan kings may have also played a very important role in spartan religious life.

>>2368945

SPARTA WAS A REPUBLIC, NOT A DIARCHY, NOR A MONARCHY.

>>2370054
why did it have 2 kings then

>>2370054
The term would be dyoarchy, not diarchy.

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>>2369567
It's called a duumvirate.

>>2370060

THE SPARTAN POLITICAL STRUCTURE WAS CONSTITUTED BY THREE BODIES: THE GEROUSIA, THE EPHORATE, THE APELLA.

THE "KINGS" WERE MERE HEADS OF STATE WITH EXECUTIVE POWERS, AKIN TO CONSULS; THEY DID NOT HAVE ABSOLUTE POWER, THEREFORE, IT WAS NOT A MONARCHY, NOR A DIARCHY.

THE POPULACE AS SUCH, OUTSIDE OF THE ELECT GROUP OF THE APELLA, HAD NO POLITICAL POWER, THEREFORE, IT WAS NOT A DEMOCRACY.

ALL POLITICAL MOTIONS ISSUED FROM AND OCCURRED AMONG THE THREE POLITICAL BODIES, WITH THE HEADS OF STATE DIRECTING, THEREFORE, IT WAS A REPUBLIC.

>>2369402
>when you lose to a gay pride parade despite outnumbering them 6:1
>when you lose to them a second time so hard that the relief force turns around halfway to the battle because they're just going to die too

>>2368945
>Consuls, duumviri, etc.
>Sparta had a unique dual kingship.

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>>2369402
>When everyone glorifies you as the pinnacle of human athleticism and militarism but in actuality you were a bunch of boy fucking wooden spear holding plebs who only were notorious because unlike every other civilization you never disbanded your army.

molon labe my nigga

Weren't spartan women basically their own people?

>>2370094
Stop writing in caps

>>2370186
Thebes is the best argument for gays in the military.

>90% of population are brutally repressed slaves
this seems sustainable

>>2370186
I love any of this really matters in history. Like wheres Sparta now?

>>2369402
>>2370186
Did Thebes beat Sparta in war like every year or something?