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What calendar year (or century) did the Spartan army, as an institution, actually come into being?

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The Wikipedia lead attributes the army's founding to the semi-mythical lawgiver Lycurgus and his reform of Spartan society, with no citable calendar year in the retrieved raw text; modern scholarship disputes whether Lycurgus was a real historical individual or a later legendary composite, so no single attested founded-year can be cited without inventing one.

What would resolve this A specialist secondary source (e.g. a peer-reviewed history of archaic Sparta) giving a scholarly consensus range or best-estimate century for the Lycurgan military reforms, distinguishing tradition from attested history.
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