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- Great_Rhetra abstract "The Great Rhetra (Greek: Μεγάλη Ῥήτρα, literally: Great "Saying" or "Proclamation", charter) was used in two senses by the classical authors. On the one hand it was the Spartan Constitution, believed to have been formulated and established by the legendary lawgiver, Lycurgus. In the legend Lycurgus forbade any written constitution. It was therefore presumed to have been oral.In a second sense the rhetra refers to an oracle of Delphi, which was believed to have contained the entire constitution in verse. The credo of being unwritten fails in this case, as a written record of all oracles was maintained by the priests at Delphi. They and others consulted it frequently. It survived long after the demise of the oracle but is missing now, except for fragments handed down by classical authors.The classical authors and the literate population of Sparta knew better than to suppose that the rhetra went into effect as written by an oracle and remained unchanged. A double tradition developed: tales of the oracular rhetra and stories of the laws of Lycurgus. As there is no history of any constitutional issues dividing the Spartans, they seem to have had no problem accepting its contradictions, perhaps because they knew it was legendary. Also, the concept of the constitution being truly oral and a state secret presents certain paradoxes, such as how the classical authors knew so much about it. Moreover, the workings of the government of a major Greek state over centuries cannot have been either unwritten or a secret. For example, Cyrus the Younger knew perfectly well that Lysander was forbidden by law to hold a second term as navarch, and yet he requested the Spartan government to make an exception. And finally, if the Spartans were forbidden to write anything down, the existence of inscriptions in the Eurotas valley becomes problematic. The institution of the rhetra in fact coincides with the innovation of the Greek alphabet based on the Phoenician alphabet.".
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- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Agasicles.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Category:Government_of_Sparta.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Charilaus.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Crete.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Cyrus_the_Younger.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Delphi.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Ephor.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Eunomus_(king_of_Sparta).
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Gerousia.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Herodotus.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Lacedaemonians.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Laconia.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Leon_of_Sparta.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Linear_B.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink List_of_state_leaders_in_850s_BC.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Lycurgus_(Sparta).
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Lycurgus_of_Sparta.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Lysander.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Numa_Pompilius.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Plutarch.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Polydectes.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Pythia.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Spartan_Constitution.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Syssitia.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink Tyrtaeus.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLink File:SpartaGreatRhetra.png.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLinkText "Great Rhetra".
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageWikiLinkText "select one of the alternatives by voting".
- Great_Rhetra hasPhotoCollection Great_Rhetra.
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- Great_Rhetra wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Lang-el.
- Great_Rhetra wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Spartan_Constitution.
- Great_Rhetra subject Category:Government_of_Sparta.
- Great_Rhetra type Article.
- Great_Rhetra type Article.
- Great_Rhetra comment "The Great Rhetra (Greek: Μεγάλη Ῥήτρα, literally: Great "Saying" or "Proclamation", charter) was used in two senses by the classical authors. On the one hand it was the Spartan Constitution, believed to have been formulated and established by the legendary lawgiver, Lycurgus. In the legend Lycurgus forbade any written constitution.".
- Great_Rhetra label "Great Rhetra".
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Constitución_de_Esparta.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Grande_Rhêtra.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Grande_Rhetra.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Wielka_Rhetra.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Grande_Retra.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs m.02w60js.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Большая_Ретра.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Велика_Ретра.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Q19180.
- Great_Rhetra sameAs Q19180.
- Great_Rhetra wasDerivedFrom Great_Rhetra?oldid=654720355.
- Great_Rhetra depiction SpartaGreatRhetra.png.
- Great_Rhetra isPrimaryTopicOf Great_Rhetra.