Sparta I

Spartan Hoplites. Illustration by Richard Hook. There are two rather curious impediments to writing an account of early Spartan history—in addition, that is, to the paucity and unreliability of our sources for Archaic history in general. The first arises from the fact that Sparta was, by the Classical period, a somewhat xenophobic society, not an […]

Sparta I

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