Read Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians 1.1-6 and 1.10 (you can skip 1.7-9). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0210%3Atext%3DConst.+Lac.%3Achapter%3D1 (the text should take about a page. Note that Lacedaimonian = Spartan. Note also that Xenophon himself is Athenian, not Spartan)

1. To what and to which person does Xenophon credit Spartan success?

2. For what reason, according to Xenophon, did the Spartans have distinctive institutions for women and marriage?

3. Read Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians 14 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0210%3Atext%3DConst.+Lac.%3Achapter%3D14). Based on this passage and the previous passage, would you say that Xenophon (who is Athenian) admires the Spartans of his own time? Is what he says here consistent with what he said in 1.1-10?