This Is Sparta?
Conflicted: A History Podcast
Introduction
In two thousand six a movie was released almost overnight. It became a cultural phenomenon, raking in half a billion dollars and dominating the summer block buster season. The heroes of our story were hundreds of highly trained, perfectly sculptured, slaveholding, wipe swapping petofiles. We have a certain image of the ancient spartans, and it is a very flattering one.
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