It blew my mind when I learned that one fragment of a lost comedy is the sum of our evidence for the lambda on Spartan shields, and I wrote this so it can blow your mind toohttps://twitter.com/askhistorians/status/1431301482490466305 …
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I always find it really striking how much of the modern 'badass' portrayal of the Spartans consists of changing out large parts of our actual evidence for Sparta with pop-culture tropes about modern elite soldiers.
It was a point I think I remember you making really well in one of your other r/askhistorian responses where you noted how Pressfield had basically converted the agoge into a boot camp, complete with yelling drill instructors, quite apart from our actual evidence.
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Yep! I like to describe Pressfield's novel as USMC fanfiction with spears. The ancient context is just fancy dress to him; the Marine is the archetypal soldier and therefore all soldiers are, by nature, like Marines.
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(never mind that Spartans weren't even soldiers &c &c you know how it goes)
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