Ephor
... official of ancient Sparta. There were five ephors elected annually, who swore each month to ... kings were leading armies in battle. The ephors were elected by the popular assembly, and ... kings were little more than generals. The ephors presided over meetings of the Gerousia, the ... like the eponymous archon of Athens. Two ephors accompanied the army in battle, and they ... the kings for misconduct during war. The ephors were also considered to be personally ...
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Sparta
... roads. Civil cases were decided by the ephors, and criminal jurisdiction had been passed to the ephors, as well as a council of elders ... was accompanied on the field by two ephors. He was supplanted also by the ephors in the control of foreign policy. Over ... generals. Real power was transferred to the ephors and to the gerousia. Causes for ...
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Apella
... the kings, but in historical times the ephors, and the voting was conducted by shouts ... not wholly, confined to the kings, elders, ephors and perhaps the other magistrates. The apella ... succession to the throne: it elected elders, ephors and other magistrates, emancipated helots and perhaps ... gerousia. The apella also elected the five ephors annually. Ephors presided over meetings of the gerousia ...
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User:WHEELER/Classical definition of republic
... autocracy--in fact, the power of our ephors is astonishingly autocratic--and yet at times ... for one year was introduced called the Ephors. It was the Ephors who presided over an assembly of all ... the two bodies, the Gerousia and the Ephors. The whole legislative process required two legislative ...
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Talk:Classical definition of republic/Archive 1
... different classes. The royalty, the aristocracy, the ephors-the demos. One of Three. Most of ... people, and subsequently by their representatives, the ephors." Both H. Rachman and this editor of ... autocracy--in fact, the power of our ephors is astonishingly autocratic--and yet at times ...
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Pausanias (general)
... sympathies, on his arrival in Sparta the ephors had him imprisoned but he was later ... almost all the evidence that the Spartan ephors needed. Later they eavesdropped on Pausanias to ... the Goddess of the Brazen House. The ephors walled up the doors, put sentries outside ...
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Pasiphaë
... in De Natura Deorum that the Spartan Ephors would sleep at the temple to receive ... society twice underwent major upheavals sparked by ephors' dreams at the shrine during the Hellenistic ... during the reign of King Agis, several ephors brought the people into revolt with oracles ...
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Cretan/Spartan connection
... is the system of government; for the Ephors have the same power as the magistrates ... called Cosmi in Crete, except that the Ephors are five in number and the Cosmi ...
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Talk:Republic/Archive 1
... as in Rome and as in the Ephors of Sparta as in the House of ... had two kings. The council of the Ephors. The council of the Gerousia, (old men ...
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Leonidas I
... daughter Gorgo he married. In 480 the ephors sent Leonidas with the 300 men of ... kings. Instead it seems likely that the ephors supported the plan half-heartedly due to ...
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