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684 Obscure Museums; Peloponnesian and Mythical Greece

Travel with Rick Steves

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Sparta, a Romantic Place in the Far South of Greece?

Sparta is a great favourite of mine because, as a product of private school system, we used the spartan agoge. So i have a lot of sparta inside me. The sparta was, it was the system that the spartans were raised under. And agoge literally refers to cattle rearing, because that's really how they treated everything in a very practical sense. You see a pretty nondescript, modern city when you go to sparta. Most of ancient sparta lies underneath the modern city,. If you have limited time and/or a limited attention span, there's probably other ancient sihts you would see first. On lapplio

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