Round 10: Tossup 6

Description acceptable. Desire to utilize this system was used as the pretext for a 272 BC siege by Pyrrhus of Epirus. Participants in this system were organized into agélai that were run by eirēn. (-5[1])Membership in a syssítion (“suh-SIT-tee-un”) dining (15[1])hall was granted upon the completion of this system. The Eurypontids and Agiads were exempted from this system, (15[2]-5[1])which moved top performers to the (-5[1])krypteia (“krip-TAI-uh”), where they would (15[1])(*) terrorize helots (“HELL-uts”). Lycurgus (“lye-KER-giss”) created this system that boys entered (10[1])at age seven. 300 graduates of this system died with Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae (“thur-MAH-puh-lee”). For 10 points, name or describe this system of military training in a Greek city-state. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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