We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown 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
“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“Their [Lacadaemonian] women, it is said, were bold and masculine, overbearing to their husbands in the first place, absolute mistresses in their… — 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
“It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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