Very Extravagant Rich People, Ancient Sparta & The Spartan Mirage (Part Two)

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We're talking all things Spartan culture: all the things made them Spartan, set them apart from the rest of the Greek world. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Constitution of the Lacedaimonians by Xenophon, translated by Xenophon E. C. Marchant and G. W. Bowersock; Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy; The Public School of Sparta by T. Rutherford Harley; Spartan Education in the Classical Period by Nicolas Richer. Bad Ancient articles of interest: Spartan infanticide myth, Molon Labe, the 300 at Thermopylae.

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0:50.2	It occurred to me one day that Sparta, though among the most thinly populated of states,
0:56.1	was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece, and I fell to wondering
1:01.9	how this could have happened.
1:03.8	But when I considered the institutions of the Spartans, I wondered no longer.
1:33.8	Oh, hi, hello, and welcome once again to the special series on Ancient Sparta.
1:40.7	One of the most famous parts of Ancient Greece, the most famous of ancient cultures and
1:45.0	practices, the one we all think about when imagining ancient warfare, the one with so many
1:51.6	misconceptions in the modern world.
1:54.6	Oh, Sparta.
1:57.0	That quote at the top was from our man, Xenophon, one of the best sources for Ancient Sparta,
2:02.4	and if he wasn't Spartan himself.
2:05.6	Sparta is one of those places that I personally didn't think too much about, mostly because
2:09.8	I'm more concerned with mythology than anything else, and while there are a few very important
2:13.9	mythological figures that were Spartan, the region itself doesn't come into play all that
2:18.4	much, or at least as much as one might expect.
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