Was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta who established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society. He developed the concept around which the new society would be based civic patriotism. Under civic patriotism it was the responsibilities/duties of the citizen that were to supersede the rights, privileges, and freedoms of the individual. In the case of the achieving security in the state of Sparta Lycurgus laws where a way to gain security for the people by the people through the ages. Sparta territory was covered with Helots or salves which outnumbered Spartans 7 to 1. Sparta was unlike any other state at the time, unbalanced, and with much social unrest between the citizens. I believe that the Sparta ways from birth to adulthood might