The Myth of Sparta

I think about that a lot when it comes to the plays because so often like a play is our only source for a myth and so it's really all we have but at the same time these people are creating their own version of something. Those retellings are also being modified in some way to fit the contemporary circumstances. I think that you know like myth in the Greek world and in the Roman world does a lot of that in terms of helping explaining contemporary presence to people. It then tells us about how they view their own histories and kind of complicates the stories of those histories.