Also uh hot take, but Sparta bad. Frankly all of ancient greece was a shitshow. Critical Support for the Achemenian Empire in their struggle against greek colonizers.
Also uh hot take, but Sparta bad. Frankly all of ancient greece was a shitshow. Critical Support for the Achemenian Empire in their struggle against greek colonizers.
John Dolan has said that Sparta and the Antebellum South/Confederacy were basically the same society.
I know when I was reading that blog's series about Sparta my instant take was "Oh so this is the Confederacy without the child soldiers part" and the blog ends with "Oh it's like North Korea.", like fucking hell. And the dude goes on and on about getting primary sources and secondary sources and how to read them but then a modern nation comes along and nah CNN is good enough. Fucking tiresome.
But these takes are also bad because they aren't very comparable. No modern society is very comparable to that.