of sparta a heroic king‚ the Author is Helena P. it’s about how king Leonidas led the 300 Spartans to war and how they train their sons to be strong and become a Spartan. From the moment of a Spartan girl or a boy came into the world‚ the military and the city state were the center of every Spartan citizen’s life. Both male and female babies were determined by city state if they were strong enough to be Spartan citizens. If the infants were too week or sick‚ they were abandoned in the country side
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Every male Spartan had to pass through the Spartan education system - the agoge. This began at the age of seven and was completed at by the age of thirty when the Spartan would become a full Spartiate and receive the right to vote. The fact that a Spartan spent so much of his life in the agoge meant that there was a long time for the state imposed system to force him to have the same views. Plutarch tells us that the particularly intelligent young men in the agoge were chosen to be part of the
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The Spartan army. So many things have been said about them‚ so many historians and influential writers have praised them‚ but are they really the ultimate fighting force so many have told us to be? Well‚ through recent research and studying of sources‚ we can tell you that they were the ultimate fighting force‚ and during this segment‚ you will see exactly how they were. The Spartan citizens devoted their lives to training for the army‚ from even when the boys were born‚ they were either killed
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but as a Spartan I could support the conquering of other people to become slaves. The slaves did the hard work and were treated harshly‚ but if they worked hard enough they could buy their freedom. In Athens‚ the slaves could have lots of jobs like tutors‚ but could never be free. Also in Athens they used the sea harbors to trade to make money. Athenians’ land was not that good‚ so they could not farm as much. Athens had huge marketplaces called Agora‚ where they used coins to trade. Spartans like life
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From the time we hit our plastic alarm clock in the morning until the time we squeeze tooth paste out of its plastic sleeve onto our plastic tooth brush when we go to bed‚ we are surrounded by plastic. Our food is packaged in it‚ our children play with toys made from it‚ we talk on plastic cell phones‚ and we sit on chairs of plastic at work writing with plastic pens‚ drinking from plastic water bottles. Plastic is everywhere. Where does all this plastic end up? It does not just disappear when we
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The Spartans sacrifice Yesterday‚ three hundred Spartans lost their lives. They were fighting against the Persian army. They held out for three days before one of them told the Persians how to defeat them. No word yet on who it was. Whoever it was died anyway though. Persia continues to advance. Every Spartan there knew that they were only meant to slow the Persians down. However‚ they had bigger plans. One Spartans journal stated it better than I could. “We do not think
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they are outnumbered. I find this appalling! To us Spartans there is no surrender or retreat. In all my years in training I was told to come back with my shield or come back on it. I can see no other option but to fight or die‚ to consider any other possibility is a disgrace to myself and to my family. Tomorrow we will meet the Persians at the pass at Thermopylae. While we are strong‚ and smarter in military techniques‚ we have only 300 Spartans and no defense of the pass has ever succeeded. From
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