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The Great Rhêtra (μεγάλη ῥήτρα / megalê rhêtra) is the founding text of the institutions of Sparta.
It is supposed to have been written by Lycurgus on the indications of Pythian Apollo. It is known to us from two sources: fragments of Tyrtea and a passage from the Life of Lycurgus (VI, 1-9) of Plutarch, which mentions four decrees:
The couplets of Tyrteus are known to us only through Plutarch (ibid., VI, 10) and Diodorus of Sicily (VII, 12, 6): So indeed the Lord with the silver bow, the acting-away Apollo with golden hair, has prophesied since his fat adyton: "That initiates the deliberation the honored kings of the gods, kings who care about the lovable city of Sparta, and the Elders of the Council and then [they are] the common people, responding in their turn by [where to] straight rhetas [they] speak honorably and do justly and do not deliberate [awkwardly] for our city and that to the mass of the people attach victory and supremacy. " Phoibos indeed on it has thus revealed to the city.
The term rhêtra (from ἐρῶ / erô, to speak) means a solemn agreement inspired or sanctioned by the gods. This is the name given by the kings of Sparta to their decrees. Bibliography edit code Luther Andreas:
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