Word: leonidasã
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...Leonidas?? passionate rallying call to freedom is a better reflection of what we like to think of our society and its values, rather than what those heroic 300 actually stood for. Like “human rights,” “freedom” is one of those terms we like to associate with anything considered positive, and we give its social impact for granted. As the Spartans were bred to bleed, we have been conditioned to associate those terms with the best traits of our culture...
...Rather than philosopher-kings, Leonidas?? actual Sparta was a society of fighter-kings, where “equals” were the fearless warrior class bred to serve the hawkish state. In fact, the state provided hordes of slave workers, helots, to work the lands of “equals.” Sparta’s economic and social arrangement was built around the assumption that colonized cities would be enslaved and, thanks to their labor, Spartan armies would be fed and clothed. How is that for an “age of freedom?...
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