rhētra (English spelling) rhetra

Japanese: rhētra(英語表記)rhetra
rhētra (English spelling) rhetra

…It is handed down in Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, Chapter 6, and is called the Greater Rhetra, whereas the three Rhetra described in Chapter 13 are called the Smaller Rhetra today. Rhetra means contract, law. The parts of the Greater Rhetra that described the construction of temples, two kings, the council of elders, and the assembly were established around 800 BC when Lycurgus established the aristocratic polis, and the parts that described tribes and the oba (regional division of the Spartans) were added shortly after 750 BC when Amycrae annexed Sparta, and then during the First Messenian War in the second half of the 8th century BC, an additional clause was added that reaffirmed the superiority of the council of elders, and the whole of the above was approved by the oracle of Delphi. …

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Japanese:

…プルタルコスの《リュクルゴス伝》第6章に伝えられており,第13章に記されている三つのレトラを今日〈小レトラ〉と呼ぶのに対して,〈大レトラ〉と称される。〈レトラrhētra〉は〈契約,法律〉の意。〈大レトラ〉の中で,神殿建立,2王,長老会,民会について述べた部分は,前800年ころ,リュクルゴスが貴族政ポリスを成立させたときに定められ,部族とオーバōba(スパルタ人の地域的区分)に関する部分は,前750年後まもなく,アミュクライのスパルタ併合時に付加され,さらに前8世紀後半の第1次メッセニア戦争中に,長老会の優越性を再確認する〈追加条項〉が別に加えられ,以上の全体がデルフォイの神託によって裁可された,と解することができる。…

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