During the Greek civil war, Aristophanes wrote the comedy Lysistrata which, behind its Battle-of-the-Sexes plotline, critiques the war between the Spartans and Athenians. Like Confucius, who used the private family to dictate how a king should govern his country, Aristophanes used the private disput...

Ancient History HSC Course Assessment Task 2 - Additional Ancient Society - 'Account for the Social structure of Spartan Society' The structure of the Spartan society developed in order to maintain control of the large discontent population of Helots. Although only speculatio...