I don't believe I said that Sparta wasn't important in pre-Macedonian conquest greek politics or even that Sparta wasn't important as an idea in later philosoph

I don't believe I said that Sparta wasn't important in pre-Macedonian conquest greek politics or even that Sparta wasn't important as an idea in later philosophy and in the idea of governing. Idealized and fetishized, yes, by those that see in Sparta something that they want in their own society. Even if most of it is dismally misguided. Plato, of course, loved spartan society and based his own utopian ideal state on it and Plato has an outsized reputation in history by his writings and his characterization of his teacher, Socrates (who wrote nothing).