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The fact that Sparta treated women better than the average Mediterranean city-state makes it ipso facto feminist.

Perhaps the question asking for the difference between Athens and Sparta could allow some deeper discussion, but most do not.

Little Sparta is on another level though - the whole place is a work of art.

Memorably, late in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta (who were winning) offered Athens an opportunity to end the war with no reparations.

LOL, you can go as back as Sparta if you like but the fact remains: NO other country started 2 WWs.

Another example might be Pheidippides running himself to exhaustion in order to recruit the aid of Sparta for the Battle of Marathon.

Like if someone wanted to create a country of Sparta now - it's not Spartans surviving, it's just a new country with an old name.

Well that one doesn't work in the Sparta preview either.

The reason the Prussians knew how to defend against the Soviets was that they where the closest thing to an intellectual heir to Sparta - most of what they did was focused on making their population ready for war.

- Herodote: Invented modern history - thyucidide described the end of the greek civilisation (conflict between Spart and the imperialist Athen) - Solon, Clysten, périclès the inventor of the real democracy and the founder of politicics - Sparta invented the modern method of social management and controlling the masses AND The last of the sophist (the way of thinking that was demolished by the socratics): Nietschze.

Lycurgus of Sparta: "The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick."

For every picture, visitors vote on whether the image is closer to "Madness" or "Sparta".

Take ancient Sparta or Rome - "Slavery is not optional and there are penalties for refusing to work.

Sparta maintained a 10:1 ratio of helots to Spartans, and that was in the early iron age.

Uh blurry apps include all the Metro stuff, IE/Sparta, etc.

I can't find anything listed that Hurley, Sparta, or Beaver Dam doesn't do better.