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Gerousia

The Gerousia (Γερουσία; also called the Spartan Senate) was the council of elders in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. It was a prestigious body, holding important judicial, legislative, and supervisory powers. During the Archaic and Classical periods, the Gerousia consisted of the two Spartan kings, plus twenty-eight adult male citizens…

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related to References · 361
Gerousia → Académie, Administration, Agesilaos, Agesilaus, Agis, Alaric, Alberto, Alexander, Alfred, Alte Geschichte, American School, An, An Epic History, Ancient Beliefs, Ancient Greece, Ancient Society, Ancient Sparta, Andreas, Andrew Luther, Andrewes
related to Hellenistic and Roman periods · 27
Gerousia → According, Agasisthenes, Agis, Agis IV's, Although Plutarch's, Areus, Assembly, BC, Cleomenes, Cleomenes II, Cleomenes III, Council, Elders, Fathers, Gerousia's, However, Leonidas, Leonidas II, Lysander, Not
related to Possible gerontes of pre-Roman Sparta · 27
Gerousia → Achaean League, Agasisthenes, Agesilaus II, Aineidas, Arcesilaus, Athens, BC, Cleombrotus, Etymokles, He, Heraclid, Hetoemaridas, His, Leuctra, Lichas, Olympic, Peloponnesian War, Persia, Piraeus, Prothöos
related to Classical period · 25
Gerousia → According, Agis II, All, As, Assembly, Athens, BC, Cinadon, Conspiracy, Diodorus Siculus, Greece, Hellenica, Heracles, Hetoemaridas, History, In, In Thucydides, Pausanias, Peloponnesian War, Sparta
related to Archaic period · 16
Gerousia → According, Anaxandridas II's, As, Assembly, BC, Delphi, Great Rhetra, Herodotus, It, Lycurgus, Plato, Plutarch, Rhetra, Sparta's, The, The Gerousia
related to history · 16
Gerousia → Archaic, Aristotelian Constitution, BC, Classical Athens, Great Rhetra, Homeric, Lakedaimonians, Lycurgus, Plutarch, Rhetra, Scholars, Sparta, Spartan, Spartans, The, When
related to Judicial · 16
Gerousia → According, AD, Agis II, Although, Aristotle, As Plutarch, BC, Both Xenophon, Ephorate, Even, Pausanias, Sparta, Spartan, The Gerousia, The Gerousia's, Xenophon
related to Membership · 14
Gerousia → AD, Aristotelian Constitution, Aristotle, Assembly, Classical Gerousia, Lakedaimonians, Lakedaimoniōn Politeia, Plutarch, Spartan, Spartan Assembly, The, The Archaic, There, Unlike
related to Legislative · 13
Gerousia → According, Agis IV, An, Ancient Greek, Assembly, Gerousia's, Great Rhetra, Plutarch, Probouleusis, Spartan, The, The Gerousia, There
related to Power and importance · 10
Gerousia → According, After, Although, Assembly, At, At Sparta, Ephorate, Plutarch, Since, Spartan

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