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 ...
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 ...