Conversations: Not the Fun Kind of Myths, De-Mystifying Spartan Tradition w/ Owen Rees
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Spartan Mirage
The Spartan Mirage is this idea that we have so much evidence that talks about the Spartans. And then you start to realise that all our sources are either hundreds of years later, or every single one of them is not Spartan. So what a historian's job is to try and see where the Mirage falls apart,. What is actually going on in Sparta? And what can we do with the evidence that stands to kind of make sense of it all? That's the Mirage and sort of our job.
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