Social And Political System In Sparta

The social and political system of Sparta was framed around physical superiority, duty to the state and conquest in war. The excepted concept of Eunomia further enforced this patriotism by placing the needs of the state above individual interest. While the Spartans lived within a rigid social structure based on a three-tiered hierarchy, they also participated in a cradle to grave obedience to the law. It was the determination of public officials who decided if a child was strong enough to survive or if it should be abandoned due to frailty. Sparta was ruled by warriors called homoioi. At the top of the three-tier sociality they ruled the large population of serfs known as the helots. On the bottom were the conquered perioeci who