this is why I'm so very salty about - say - using Sparta as the name of your browser and saying you're the plucky underdog that will always keep fightinghttps://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1387114471517265921 …
My own longer thoughts on Sparta are here: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ … but fully agreed. Sparta is an awful model for imitation or veneration, for a multitude of reasons.
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my first degree was classics and I remember my greek history tutor dryly inviting us to count up the actual numbers at Thermopylae since the Spartan soldiers had their helots with them
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if you've not seen it, the panels covering it in Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe are very on point
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