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 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.
The more reliable we think the literary sources are, the more Sparta is a uniquely bad place. The less reliable we think they are, the more Sparta is a bland, commonly bad place.
