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New HumanistsSparta Before the Reactionary Turn | Episode XCIISend us a textWe think of Sparta as a grim place, more of a military barracks with some civilians attached than an actual city. Its inhumane marriage laws, nauseating eugenics program, brutal educational system, obsession with military training, and paranoid suspicion of non-Spartans all led French historian Henri-Irénée Marrou to label Classical Sparta as an ancient fascist state. But there was a time, as Marrou argues in his history of ancient education, when Sparta was the cultural center of ancient Greek life. Artists and musicians flocked to pre-Classical, archaic Sparta to find a population mo...
2025-07-1553 min
QuotomaniaQuotomania 205: Theognis of MegaraToday’s Quotation is care of Theognis of Megara. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast
Theognis, (flourished 6th century BC, Megara[Greece]), was an ancient Greek elegiac poet whose work preserved a glimpse into Greek society in a time of turmoil. More than half of all surviving elegiac poetry in ancient Greek was transmitted under his name, preserved in a collection of elegiac couplets in two books, or papyrus rolls, consisting of 1,389 verses, some of which are variants of each other. The collection includes poems by other aut...
2022-04-2401 min
2021-12-0604 min
Spartan History Podcast020. The Spartan YokeEPISODE 20 THE SPARTAN YOKEHappy new year folks, welcome back to the Spartan History Podcast, the only podcast called the Spartan History Podcast. We're turning 20 with the release of this episode and I couldn't be more pleased to be back behind the microphone. I hope you all had a safe holiday season.This time we're taking the Spartan story into the 7th century as the city consolidates her hold on the recently acquired Messenian territories. First though, we look at the post war settlement within city and see if the aggressive land grab, that was t...
2021-01-1040 min
The European History Podcast8 - Bonus Episode - Greek PoetryThis is a bonus episode with a reading of a poem by Tyrtaeus on the subject of the Citizen Soldier of Sparta.
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