This article is riddled with problems, but two jumped out immediately: 1. Who pronounces it ah-GOJ-uh? Is this an American pronunciation that I have just never come across? 2. Child soldier is a wholly inappropriate term here, both morally and factually.https://twitter.com/whencyclopedia/status/1404727565907025921 …
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I'll be sure to send it your way for comment once it's ready (though it is currently in the queue behind a few other things, so it may be a while).
I do think a lot in the comparison depends on what in the ancient evidence you find credible. Part of the reason I want to make the argument is to point out that taking our sources at their word produces a recognizable real-world system, which may lend them some plausibility.
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(To be clear, a recognizable and *very bad* real world system, less anyone mistake my point on this here Twitter-dot-com)
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Indeed, but I knew what you meant
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That is fair - I am openly critical of Plutarch's wet-dream version of Sparta, but if you take him at his word I can see how you might get there.
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I tend to see Sparta existing on a spectrum, with one end where our sources are largely reliable and Sparta is a truly horrifying dystopian hell-hole and the other end where our sources are mostly liars and Sparta is modestly disappointing polis.
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