Buried beneath mountains and myth, Sparta forged one of the ancient world's most brutal and extraordinary civilizations, ...
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Before Thermopylae, how Sparta became a war state, from Lycurgus to the helots and the shadow of Persia
Long before Xerxes reached Thermopylae, Persia’s kings were already asking a dangerous question, who are the Spartans. This chapter traces the origins of Spartan power, Lycurgus’ half-mythic ...
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