The Date of the Lykourgan Reforms in Sparta

Abstract

TO H. T. WADE-GERY. Some years ago Mr. R. L. Wade-Gery persuaded me that the Lykourgan reforms at Sparta belonged to the first half of the seventh century. At the same time, more notably, he persuaded his father, Professor H. T. Wade-Gery, who has not been entirely passive in our subsequent discussions. Hence, in offering this personal presentation of the argument to Professor Wade-Gery in the year of his 75th birthday, I am offering much that already belongs to him or to his house. I hope that he will accept the residue, whatever it may be, as a small mark of my admiration, gratitude, and very deep affection.