(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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'Distant ages will find it hard to believe that Sparta was at all equal to their fame...no fine edifices'' Thucydides
'let each man plant himself stoutly'- Tyrtaeus
Tyrtaeus- Spartan poet militaristic
Plutarch: as boys reached the age of seven, Lycurgus took charge of them all himself and distributed them into troops: here he accustomed them to live together and be brought up together,
Xenophon: king should make all public sacrifices for the state because
of his divine descent, and should lead the army
Aristotle
Myron of Priene: 'to the helots they assign every shameful task'
Polybius
Herodotus" [Lycurgus] “changed all the laws and made sure that these should not be transgressed.'
'Spartan Mirage' Francois Ollier
Aristophanes 'thigh flashers' of Spartan women
Alcman: 'Now sleep the mountain peaks and the ravines, ridges and torrent streams'
Plutarch 46 to 120 BC Greco-Roman one of key sources
Xenophon 430-354 BC Athenian who served in Spartan army.
Plutarch:
Concerning Lycurgus the lawgiver, in general, nothing can be said which is not disputed'
Herodotus
Plato
Plutarch -sayings of Spartan women e.g. 'with your shield or on it' attributed to Gorgo
Herodotus: is their custom: when they are about to risk their lives, they arrange their hair"
Tyrtaeus: 'How glorious fall the valiant, sword in hand, In front of battle...for Sparta'
Aristotle: the ephorate ... has supreme authority in the most important matters,
Plutarch: 'would not understand black soup unless bathed in Eurotas'
Alcman Sparta n poet late 7th C BC presents culturally sophisticated Sparta
Tacitus
'one fifth of Sparta owned by heiresses'- Aristotle
'Molon Labe' (come and take them) supposedly King Leonidas to Xerxes.
Burial Mound near Thermopylae: Go tell the Spartans, passer-by, that here, by Spartan law, we lie'
"cumbersome iron bars.... Dipped in vinegar'- Xenophon
