The proposed monograph by the outstanding researcher of the ancient history of ancient Greece Yuri Viktorovich Andreev is not only the first, but also the only study in Russian history of the key problem of the socio-economic and political development of Sparta, namely the problem of the cultural revolution of the 6th century. BC e. Due to the lack of reliable written evidence, the author, for the first time in Russian science, turns to another main source of information - namely, archaeological material, primarily to the numerous and varied works of Laconian art of the 7th–6th centuries. BC e., discovered in the sanctuaries of Orthia, Menelaion and others. The book is intended not only for specialists in antiquity, but also for everyone interested in the art and history of Ancient Greece.