Spartans expended vast resources to develop a powerful and structured military apparatus to prevent and subdue rebellions.
Our knowledge of the political systems within the antiquated Greek world comes from a wide run of sources.
While for Athens, it is conceivable to piece together a more total history, we have as it were an deficient picture of the frameworks in most city-states and numerous points of interest of how the political device really worked are lost.
Surviving, in spite of the fact that, are over 150 political discourses and 20,000 engravings which incorporate 500 orders and 10 laws.
There are moreover two particularly political writings with the same title, The Structure of the Athenians, one composed by Aristotle or one of his students and the other credited (by a few) to Xenophon.
Other sources which talk about legislative issues and government incorporate Aristotle's Legislative issues and the authentic works of Heroes, Thucydides, and Xenophon.
In expansion, politics is frequently ridiculed within the comedies of Aristophanes.