Lycurgus system did not need to be altered. Furthermore‚ they were against Spartans having too much wealth or personal power. As a result‚ the Lycurgus system’s rigidity produced a closed society plagued by the effects of inbreeding. Some historians agree that "the Spartan hegemony ’perished through ’oliganthropia’’ - a lack of men. This is not because of a population decrease in Laconia but just a lack of men of the Spartan citizen class who could serve as hoplites‚ called ’homoioi’ or ’Spartiates
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betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the army‚ King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespian volunteers (Number vary). The Persians succeeded in taking the pass but sustained heavy losses‚ extremely disproportionate to
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city states. Was the most symbolic struggles in history. The battle began Iran 480 B.C. All of the defenders of sparta were killed because they were outnumber. The Greeks met the persian army in small road between Thessaly and Central Greece. The spartan king Leonidas
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in todays time and day acted like a mother from the Spartan era she would be considered unfit. Why is that? Pressfield explains how mothers would send their newborn sons to be inspected and if found unfit then they would be left for the wolves. He says the most famous of the Spartan mothers is the one who handed her son the shield and said “Come back with this or on it.” The warrior ethos is not just in men. It’s said Leonidas picked his 300 men not because of their strength or warrior mentality
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historical city-states (polis) to have ever existed was Athens and Sparta and that are always taken an example for their completely different governing systems. The difference between two city states were flagrant. Today we will dive deeper into the Spartans and Athenians life and try to figure out how Athens and Sparta obtain the right to participate in public life. We will also discuss about who held the public office and what rules governed the selection of the public office holders. Finally we will
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Sparta: Uncultured Discipline The Spartans were the most formidable warriors in all of history. They dedicated their entire lives to warfare. They were taught to endure cold‚ hunger‚ pain‚ their courage on the battlefield was second to none. The Spartan code was to fight hard‚ follow orders without question and to die rather then retreat or surrender. To achieve all this‚ Sparta sacrificed everything; the arts‚ culture‚ and other things that make life worth while. I believe the price was to high
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abandoned outside the walls of the city. Some of Plato’s ideas had already been put into action in Sparta‚ around 431 BC. In line with the concept of ‘Eunomia’‚ weak male infants were left to die on slopes of Mt. Taygetus. (“The true story…”) “The Spartans practiced an
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I. In Greece the polis of Sparta was the number one military authority for the people and for the time period. There was nothing that the Spartans could not do when it came to war. From the time that Spartan men were born‚ they were evaluated for their future services to the Spartan society. Each baby was sent to have the ten‚ ten‚ one test done on them as explained in the novel‚ The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. This test was to check and make sure that there were no deformities. If there
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disunity of the Greek states. The Greeks had chosen to defend a narrow pass‚ or gap‚ between the mountains of central Greece and the sea‚ called Thermopylae. This pass was part of the route into Greece from the north. King Leonidas of Sparta rounded up 300 of Sparta’s most elite soldiers with the help of 7000 Greek soldiers from other states marched for an attempt to block the only road by which the massive Persian army could pass‚ while the small army knew they would face a large army which would end
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Because of the recent movie‚ 300‚ most people are aware of the epic battle that occurred at Thermopylai were 300 odd Spartans supposedly held off an army of over one million led by Xerxes I. Now‚ there were many errors in the movie (the number of men on both sides being the chiefest of them). But it still leaves many people asking how a force so drastically outnumbered was able to hold a force nearly twenty times their number. The answer lies in the difference in their equipment‚ tactics and their
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