But also because it somehow credits Sparta for an 'equality' Rome could have achieved simply by enslaving all of the plebians. The difference between Rome and Sparta is that in Sparta the patricians managed to completely wall everyone else out from politics.
If Aristotle and Xenophon could not see that - well, many learned men in Europe in the 1930s were similarly blind.
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I think I should be clear on this point - I am not arguing that Rome was better than Sparta. I am arguing that Sparta was *bad* in an absolute sense.
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