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The Struggles of Sparta

Sparta was a brutal place to grow up. I don't think many people who live in western democracies today would feel very at home In ancient Sparta. So it's interesting to me that people associate Democracy and freedom with the Greeks in this conflict between the Greeks and the Persians And they imagine that Sparta was this ambassador of Freedom and democracy and kind of they weren't.

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