It's the Ancient's on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host.

And in today's podcast, we are continuing our chat with Professor Stephen Hodgkinson

all about ancient sparta, about classical sparta, what do we know what is still being

debated.

And in the second part, we're going to be focusing in on sparse and food.

We're going to be looking at the spartan military training.

We're going to be looking at the mess hall and we're also going to be looking at the

highest levels of spartan society.

We're going to be looking at the kings and the efforts.

So that further ado, here is the ancient sparta guru, that is Stephen Hodgkinson.

Stephen, it is an absolute pleasure to have another eminent spartan historian on the show.

It's really great to be here talking to you Tristan.

I like to dissect a few truth versus myth, fact versus fiction elements of classical

spartan society.

And one thing I'd really like to focus on, and you actually mentioned them earlier, which

seems pretty distinctive for classical Greek city-states, was the fact that Sparta had

kings.

Yes, they had two kings, in fact, yes.

Reading at the same time, two different war houses, the Aegean and the European-tid

war houses, Sparta is not totally unusual in having leaders like this.

It's unusual having two kings, but there are certain cities elsewhere in the group

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