Given the alternative to prevailing militarily was typically slavery or dispersement and homogenization into the conquering society, I can see why these ideas w

Given the alternative to prevailing militarily was typically slavery or dispersement and homogenization into the conquering society, I can see why these ideas were treated as important. As a proxy for meaning now? Spartan myths and ideals are a fun mythology and aesthetic for some and a straw man for others, so any discussion in the present is going to play out on party lines.