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Here's a contrasting view, for balance: https://www.spartareconsidered.com/home.html https://www.spartareconsidered.com/home.html Since most of what we know of

Here's a contrasting view, for balance: https://www.spartareconsidered.com/home.html https://www.spartareconsidered.com/home.html Since most of what we know of Sparta comes from non-Spartans who were either very much pro or very much against them, there's little chance we'll ever have a provably objective view of them.

yannis7 6y ago
nit: there are some fragments, say the speech of Spartan King Archidamus, which are recorded in sources like Thucydedes -- these you _may_ consider them as sources that reveal Spartans' self-understanding to some extent