The funny thing is he was right for much of history but not completely right, because so many future historians, like the eminent Frank Miller, completely agreed with this "leaving historical evidence is for soyboys" attitude and were willing to just totally make shit up
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Another frustrating consequence of this was that Sparta's default answer for anyone asking "hey, this is a pretty interesting institution you got there. Who came up with that?" was just "Lycurgus. Yeah, he came up with all this stuff hundreds of years ago. Don't look it up..."
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"... because he also told us never to write our laws down. But they have definitely all been the same since he came up with them. Yup. Nothing changed or lost in translation anywhere."
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