Can anyone suggest specific quotes/texts to reference when discussing the Spartan Society module.
Paul Cartledge, Kathryn Welch, Tyrtaeus etc.
Just looking for good specific opinions or texts to mention.
Some of my favourites from last year
• “The walls of Sparta were its young men and its borders the tips of their spears” -Plutarch
“The city of Sparta is not regularly planned and contains no temples or monuments of great magnificence but is simply a collection of villages”- Thucydides
- “…they would all live on equal terms with one another, with the same amount of property…they would seek to be first only in merit” – Plutarch
Cameron: “culture and arts and crafts flourished in Sparta at a time when many of the ancient authors would have us believe they had vanished.”
“If the Spartans city were to become deserted… it difficult to believe that the Spartans power had been as great as their fame implied” – Thucydides
- “Alcmans Sparta is a Sparta not of austere egalitarianism or militaristic isolationism but rather of trans-regional elites who participate in high culture” - M.Hall
