What are the top history myths pervasive in pop culture that you would like to see debunked? I'm talking about things like Cleopatra wasn't (exactly) Egyptian, Napoleon wasn't short, etc.
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Rad! Can you expand on this?
Just gonna leave this: https://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vi-spartan-battle/ … discussion of the question here. Sparta's battlefield performance was strikingly average for a Greek polis of its size.
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I'm sure I learned this on r/askhistorians, but aren't we now learning that the myth of Spartan superiority began AFTER Thermopylae, and was primarily a psychological warfare advantage thereafter?
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This is exactly the argument I make in the above linked post.
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