https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony > Due to their mistrust of others, Spartans discouraged the creat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony > Due to their mistrust of others, Spartans discouraged the creation of records about their internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. A good example, but perhaps not the point you wanted to make.