This idea, the 'universal warrior' is nonsense. Heck, the Macedonian phalangite wouldn't have fit in a Roman legion (Plb. 18.28ff) and vice versa. A Spartan wouldn't have been properly drilled to fight in either! War is not constant, and neither are combatants.https://twitter.com/SPressfield/status/1346185128742014976 …
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I don't* get why some right-wing people idolise Spartans and not, say, the Sacred Band of Thebes who defeated them. Surely the Army of Lovers make better military role models? * I do, and I guess we all do get why.
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I have a long, seven-part demolition of the 'Spartan Mirage' over on my blog starting here: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ … Sparta was pretty terrible...even at the things it was supposed to be good at.
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The thing that always gets me is why "Spartan" is taken as a synonym for badass *individual* fighters, when what they actually seemed to be exceptional at relative to other Greeks (drilling and discipline via good/abundant NCOs) is a reasonably fair thing to fetishize on its own!
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