But it is very stable. But the stability in Sparta is like the stability of North Korea. Hyper-oppressive, controlling societies that are willing to compromise external competitiveness to maintain internal oppression are *really* stable. That's not GOOD. 10/23
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...films and games favor the spartiates so heavily and they erase everyone else so completely, that you end up - like here - with huge gaps where there is simply *no* pop culture reference point. 90+% of Spartans simply do not appear in films like 300. 21/23
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I hope this series, taken together, does something to stress the importance of that massive majority of people who made up the Spartan state. A society ought to be judged by the life it makes possible for all of its people, not just its elites. 22/23
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Anyway, that's the tweetstorm. Again, the last of the series (and links to the rest) is here: https://acoup.blog/2019/09/27/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vii-spartan-ends/ … Feel free to throw questions my way and please, if you thought this was good/interesting/useful - share it; we need a new pop-discourse on Sparta. end/23
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