spartans

The Spartans were not illiterate - they preferred oral history and verbal contracts to written records.

And Spartans sucked anyway, not leaving much to the history except barracks sodomy, heroic deaths and a handful of 2nd grade poets.

What did for the Spartans was all dying glorious deaths before having enough kids.

Not exactly the bravest thing, the Spartans would have called this Womanly fighting.

If we could have just figured this out 2500 years ago, then we 'd be Spartans instead of PsychoPaths.

This is similar to how the Athenians eventually defeated the Spartans by never engaging them in close combat and raining arrows and spears on them.

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.

Dig a little deeper into the motives as to why such rules were made by the Spartans and you will see that it was pure protectionism.

The currency of Spartans was changed to heavy iron bars.

The name is a LOT more sexist, but few people would realise (spartans famously didn't think highly of wom ¹), but it also has the metaphorical meaning of being b ¹-bones, which is what these pages are.

And I believe the Spartans weren't known as nice and understanding bunch.

The Spartan economy, operated by the Perioikoi and Helots, was strong enough, but it relied on there being a critical mass of adult male Spartans to maintain it.

"I believe the Spartans weren't known as nice and understanding bunch." Actually, I think it was the opposite in terms of their general personalities.

There's a story to that effect, which might be only a legend, but it goes like this: "An old man wandering around the Olympic Games looking for a seat was jeered at by the crowd until he reached the seats of the Spartans, whereupon every Spartan younger than him, and some that were older, stood up and offered him their seat.

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

You had me until you compared yourself to the Spartans, a people who were strong because they let their weaker babies die.

You can go sit in the ground with the Quakers and the Spartans.