Legislation in Sparta

Abstract

IF WE BELIEVE that the rhetra quoted by Plutarch in Lycurgus 6 either is or reflects' a genuine enactment of the seventh, or an earlier, or even a later, century B.C., and that the Spartan constitution remained unchanged paper until the third century B.C., except, perhaps, for the addition of the rider to the rhetra which Plutarch also quotes, it follows that any examples we have of Spartan legislation, or any comments on Spartan legislation, from the centuries between should either match the procedure of the rhetra (plus rider) or be explicable as natural developments from it. The cases known to me are:

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