Tyrtaeus on War and the Spartan Ideal

Tyrtaeus of Sparta, mid to late seventh century BCE, in the time of the Second Messenian War, is the name this site attaches to a writer of ἐλεγεῖον. Later reports conflict on his birthplace; the dominant tradition here makes him Spartan.

What this site holds is two files under Fragments on Spartan Constitution, including the elegy later called Eunomia.

The ἐλεγεῖον is quotation in later authors, civic μέτρον for Sparta, not a dumped “Spartan ideology” and not a Latin autograph.