Sparta and the Nazis
The Ancients
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The Roman Model of Spars Paradine in Germany in the Late Nineteenth Century
Part of it was that the roman model had really been taken on by, say, napoleon in france. But even at this time, we can find this kind of alternate strand of philhellenism where particularly military men are looking to sparta as a model. That the self sacrificial example of leonadas and the 300 at themopyla, is something that comes up even there. And i think, as we'll see further onin podcast, that something which is very common in spartan reception all the way up to the twentieth century.
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