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For the agoge - which seems so strange and ancient and foreign to most modern students - I felt that the bucket of cold water required a modern context, so I started looking at and asking around about the literature on child soldiers to see if I'd find parallels. 16/20
I mentioned this in the post, but reading the literature on modern child soldiers was some of the toughest reading - emotionally - I've done. And, I mean, I study ancient war. But honestly, when I started reading, I expected... 17/20
...the parallels to be there, maybe a bit strained, maybe a bit stretched. Instead, I ended up at nearly one-to-one correlation, each practice neatly - terribly - mirrored by one or more groups of awful human rights abusers. 18/20
I hope this post inspired a bit of empathy with the boys thrown into this inhuman system, just like I hope the next few (one each week) will get people to think about this society from the perspective of its other victims, who far outnumbered its citizens. 19/20
Anyway, thanks for reading my ramblings. As before, the main post is here (https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ …). The series will continue with one new post on Sparta until it's done (planned at 5 total, but no plan survives contact). 20/20 (fin)
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