Examples of ephors in the following topics:
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Culture in Classical Sparta
- For example, from the time of the Greco-Persian Wars, the kings lost the right to declare war and were shadowed in the field by two officials, known as ephors.
- The ephors also supplanted the kings’ leadership in the realm of foreign policy.
- Civil and criminal cases were also decided by ephors, as well as a council of 28 elders over the age of 60, called the gerousia.