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The rise and fall of an ancient superpower reveals the true, sometimes surprising history of Sparta

Spartans were both brutal and... progressive?
Smithsonian Magazine

Sparta Was Much More Than an Army of Super Warriors

Myke Cole | Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was ...