Spartan Moms for Liberty
Young Heretics
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The Importance of Motherly Influence in Sparta
Gorgo daughter of King Cleomines said because we are the only women that are mothers of men. When you do physical fighting when you go out and battle against the enemy right you actually have to kind of shut down some part of your emotional life, she says. Women's essential role is to buck up their their children and to infuse them with their own particular brand of courage which is moral courage.
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