What Life Was Really Like for the Average Spartan
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Publicado 2019-11-17
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What historical group of warriors or soldiers do you think are the toughest?
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Imagine training your entire life just to die 5 minutes into your first battle.
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Spartan: "Lets take a look at this baby" Baby: Faintest Defect Spartan: i diagnose you with dead
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Viking: I am so badass Spartan: You must be new here.
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Fun fact is that they didn't called their sons by their names, they called them just BOI
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"Would you be able to live the life of a Spartan?" Somehow I don't think you'd have any choice.
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I’m sure Spartans would think us modernized people were utterly fat and useless! 🤣
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So, strangely enough, Sparta was one of the few societies in the history of the Western world where you actually hit the jackpot if you were a girl and not a boy. You got a husband who looked like a superhero and you actually had several freedoms that no other women were allowed in centuries.
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"Heavy drinking was for slaves only." And it still is.
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Imagine a society of gym bros That’s what I’m picturing
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Can you do a day in the life of the average mongols
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spartans when their children didn't seem to be able to fight a full grown lion a few hours after birth: yeetus deletus this braindead fetus
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Something I've always wondered: how did Sparta become so brutally obsessed with creating the best warriors that distinguished them from other city states? Was there a defining event that made them like this?
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“If they were caught for a crime they were severely punished, not for stealing. But for not being smart enough to get away with it.” Good way for psychopaths to thrive
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“Do you think you could live the life of a Spartan?” Looks down at stomach “No. No I could not”
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Me who’s sitting in my bed eating Cheetos at 1 in the morning while my Greek ancestors who have killed hundreds of enemy soldiers: pathetic
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baby: coughs slightly Spartan: so you have chosen death
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Bathed in wine? Sounds pretty fancy
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Baby: Sneezes once Spartan: YEET
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It's interesting that only soldiers who died in battle and women who died in childbirth could legally get a funeral in Sparta, since they both died for their country. Definitely a good way to keep the citizens focused on the Spartan way of life.
