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Sparta's not that great (lemmy.world)

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting! Thanks for that, had no idea the practice was in Sparta. Yes the quote is from 300, even though it's not exactly what he said in the movie. I was too lazy to look it up.

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[–] Mniot@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

For more interesting writing about the historical Sparta, check out the history blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry:

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/23/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-ii-spartan-equality/
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/29/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-iii-spartan-women/
https://acoup.blog/2019/09/05/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-iv-spartan-wealth/
https://acoup.blog/2019/09/12/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-v-spartan-government/
https://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vi-spartan-battle/
https://acoup.blog/2019/09/27/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vii-spartan-ends/
https://acoup.blog/2022/08/19/collections-this-isnt-sparta-retrospective/

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