sparta government Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/sparta-government Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Sparta in History & Today http://travelsfinders.com/sparta-in-history-today.html http://travelsfinders.com/sparta-in-history-today.html#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:09:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244823 Mythological Sparta is unlike the Sparta of Classical history. Early Sparta enjoyed a flourishing cultural and artistic life, but in the late seventh century bc this changed. Fearing defeat by either external enemies or their own slaves, the dominant classes adopted a regime of extraordinary austerity. Loyalty to the state was paramount. Boys housed in barracks from the age of seven were trained exclusively as warriors, while girls honed their bodies to bear strong children. An eccentric constitution melded monarchy, oligarchy and democracy, underpinned by an almost fanatical observation of religious festivals. Predictably many Spartans were sociopaths. Despite establishing some

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/sparta-in-history-today.html/feed 0 Sparta & the Haunts of Helen http://travelsfinders.com/sparta-the-haunts-of-helen.html http://travelsfinders.com/sparta-the-haunts-of-helen.html#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:06:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244819 The most beautiful of all Spartan woman had once been the most ugly. What happened was this: her parents considered her appearance a disaster, so, pondering her unappealing looks, her nurse devised this plan: each day she took the child to Helen’s sanctuary at Therapne, above the temple of Apollo placed her beside the statue and prayed to the goddess to stop the child being ugly. One day, as she was leaving the sanctuary, they say the nurse met a woman who asked her what she was carrying in her arms. When she said it was a

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