Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...
This sixth-century B.C. Lacedaemonian vase shows two Spartan soldiers bearing hoplite panoply. Both sport the long hair characteristic of the Spartiates (full citizens of Sparta). Something ...
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