Admiration Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all…

— Thomas R. Martin

Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus because he's…

— Zack Snyder

“First of all, you don’t want me to get too hungry. Ever. I’m an ever worse bastard than normal and having starved for centuries,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“They passed the Gates of Thermopylae the following day and Alexander stopped to visit the tombs of the Spartan soldiers who had fallen one…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her…

— Ernle Bradford

“O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have…

— Simonides

“the Spartan right fall upon the defenders of Antirhion, not in frenzied shrieking rage, lip-curled and fang-bared, but predator-like, cold-blooded, applying the steel with…

— Steven Pressfield

“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad -…

— A.E. Coppard

I'm a Spartan, so we don't forget that.

— Maria Sakkari

“You’re terrified that my father will hear that you’ve taken me prisoner. No Spartan woman marries a coward!” “Watch your tongue,” Theseus growled, his…

— Esther M. Friesner

“We don’t do psyop. We’ve never worked with Spartans before. And we’re definitely not trained for this spook stuff. But how hard can it…

— Karen Traviss

“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays a consciousness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche