Quote Originally Posted by Ludens View Post
Except that the code of Lycurgus didn't prevent the bribery of a Spartan king and another high official when the agoge was in place. And by EB's time, the agoge had gone. I think there are several more examples of corruption amongst prominent, but I can't look them up here. Didn't Cleomenes bribe the oracle of Delphi to have Demaratus dethroned?
At which time, from 700 till 450 BC when the laws were still fully applied or afterwards when it gradually declined and slowly got softer?

The same Cleomenes who cut himself apart and was demented and burned down a holy area?