Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“You are my heart,” he (Eryx) said…. “I will kill any man and turn the whole world to ash for you, my… — Jaclyn Osborn Copy Share Image
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches... — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
