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...Hebrew Sparta. It is Ben-Gurion's overriding concern that those children be raised in an Israel finally at peace. To achieve that, Ben-Gurion would be willing for Israel to surrender every captured territory except Jerusalem ("the eternal capital") and the Golan Heights. He is thus closer than his successors in Israel's government to the six-point settlement that U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers outlined last week at the U.N. Rogers urged Israel to withdraw from the east bank of the Suez Canal in exchange for an Egyptian pledge of unrestricted passage for Israeli...
...JUNE OF 1961, I was very tired of Dartmouth. My football career terminated with the end of the third-string team's season. I soon discovered that undergraduate life at Dartmouth was depressing, isolating, and that all that was bad about the historical Sparta (including the community of women) was also wrong with the Big Green...
More serious is the argument that discipline and rigor are essential to the primary business of the military: preparing men to kill and to endure the personal danger of death. Nearly all the legendary armies of history have been harshly trained and regimented. The model is ancient Sparta, whose youths spent 23 years, including their wedding nights, in soldiers' barracks and could be fined merely for showing...
...Ancient Sparta is under the rule of the demonic tyrant Lykourgos. He has made Sparta a brilliant military state, but it has become flabby with prosperity. The Helots, an oppressed race used as slave labor by the Spartans, have started an uprising against their masters. Sound familiar so far? That's about as far as contemporary parallels go. Lykourgos has forced the complete redistribution of wealth in Sparta, and set up communal dining halls where everyone regardless of rank eats the same food. He has established a successful communist state...
Agathon was once a handsome and ambitious academic-political young man, an Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read...