Of this author's many excellent series, one is about Sparta (https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/ https://acoup.blog/category/collections/t

Of this author's many excellent series, one is about Sparta (https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/ https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/), and it makes this point practically word for word. He is vehement in deconstructing the idea that Sparta is represented by the Spartiates, repeatedly emphasising that the majority were helot slaves who are invisible to history but whose lot we'd be far more likely to share. Your observation stands as a generality but it's somewhat ironic still, making this complaint about a post by a historian who is very very aware of what you're saying.