>The third and most masterly stroke of this great lawgiver, by which he struck a yet more effectual blow against luxury and the desire of riches, was the ordinance he made, that they should all eat in common, of the same bread and same meat, and of kinds that were specified, and should not spend their lives at home, laid on costly couches at splendid tables, delivering themselves up into the hands of their tradesmen and cooks to fatten them in corners, like greedy brutes, and to ruin not their minds only but their very bodies which, enfeebled by the indulgence and excess, would stand in need of long sleep, warm bathing, freedom from work, and, in a word, of as much care and attendance as if they were continually sick.
Source:
Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. βLycurgus.β Plutarch's Lives. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 60, 61. Print.
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ΞΟ ΞΊΞΏαΏ¦ΟΞ³ΞΏΟ (Lycurgus of Sparta)
Ξ£ΟΞ¬ΟΟΞ± / Ξ£ΟΞ¬ΟΟΞ· (Sparta) / ΞακΡδαίμΟΞ½ (Lacedaemon)
This video describes Spartan women as being highly liberated and autonomous for their time in history, that they wore revealing clothes and often did sports naked in the presence of men. He also says that women in Sparta were permitted to have two husbands, so that their children could have two inheritances. What features of life ancient Sparta would have made this female empowerment possible? Was it simply the absence of men, since men were away fighting wars?
When you get the blades, Kratos tells Athena that he is no longer their monster, the slave of the olympians. He controls his own fate. When you are coming back from Helheim with the heart, Mimir calls Kratos the Ghost of Sparta. To which he tells him to not call him that. In the future, maybe if Atreus is kidnapped by the Aesir? Will Kratos finally embrace this title that he hates so much? I couldnβt think of Atreus being kidnapped by Aesir as a bigger motivator to embrace who he is, Champion of the Olympians and their destroyer. Just so all of the Norse world knows who he is exactly. No mistaken identity like with Balder. Like imagine An Aesir meets Kratos and doesnt know who he is, says they have Atreus locked away in Asgard and that heβll never see him again. Kratos goes....
βI am the Ghost of Sparta and you will not see the end of this dayβ
Surely, the Aesir know what happened to the Greeks. Odin probably read Thor the bedtime story of The Legend of The Ghost of Sparta. A man who killed his family, was revealed as a god, killed his own gods. I feel like there will be a point when Kratos fully embraces his own legend. That of the god killer, and the boogeyman of Greece. He will want to inflict fear into the Aesir if they kidnap Atreus. Iβm not a parent but I can imagine that is every parents worst nightmare.
In Tyrs vault we see the Greek urn with Kratos on it with wrecked bodies and a collapsing Greek structure. This Iβm assuming is his legend of being a spartan turned champion slave to the Greek Gods, turned pantheon destroyer. Anyone who visited that temple knew of him. When Mimir put two and two together he blurted out that heβs βdangling from the hip of the bloody Ghost of Spartaβ. This begs the question, if Mimir, a Scottish god, knows of Kratos, and anyone whoβs viewed the urn in the temple ( in Midgard) knows of him, How will the Aesir and other gods in other lands react to him? Will they try to ban together (maybe after he wipes out the Norse pantheon) and attack him? How will Odin react? This whole game was mistaken identity with Baldur and Thorβs sons thinking he was a giant. Freya knew he was a god and of Sparta. I wonder if she figured it out. But anyway.
Long story short: How do you guys think the Aesir and other pantheons react knowing the Ghost of Sparta is killing gods in another pantheon now?
Reading a recent post about the Lethani I've developed the thought that the Adem might be heavily inspired by the Spartans. Here are some of the similarities I've noticed:
Sparta and Ademre are both free states, both are among the oldest of the land and others seem unwilling to invade for the most part.
Sparta uses irregular architecture (not tents, as is commonly believed) in a minimalist style, the city-planning seemed chaotic and they didn't have any too notable temples and monuments, in Haert they use a minimalist style that blends in with the environment, from the description I'd think it was less planned, more random.
The children are cared for by the whole population and the government rather than just the parents, in Sparta boys started training in combat at age 7 and were sent to live in common barracks, girls were not taken into barracks, but they were also trained to fight, though not to the same extent as boys. In Ademre both boys and girls start practicing at a young age (I don't know what age, but I think it's under 7), but only went to live in the common "barracks" in their teens.
Ademre is a matriarchy, Sparta was ruled by a king and a council of elders, the council of elders had more than half women, so for the most part Sparta was ruled by women, the king was more of a commandant for the armies.
Ademre doesn't have much resources, so they sell their skill in combat as mercenaries to send back money so that the state can buy what they need. In Sparta there were no farmers, no miners, ... Instead they sent out armies to conquer lands and send back anything they need, all conquered peoples had to continue sending food, ore, wood, ... to Sparta. So both Sparta and Ademre sends out people to get everything they need, though Sparta also captured slaves to work in Sparta, Ademre does have some people doing that other work. Spartan women generally organised the state and their household, they didn't have to do actual work.
The Adem are seen as bad-ass fighters, and the Lethani is seen as a magic that lets them gather strength, but actually they are great philosophers and strongly spiritual people, but indeed most of their philosophy is about fighting. Sparta is commonly also seen as just a city of great warriors, but in their own time Spartans were known as warrior-philosophers, and they stuck very strongly to their traditions. Plato once said that all philosophers were imitators of Spartan education, and he described Chilon the
... keep reading on reddit β‘As the title says im strugling a bit with Sparta in the begining because macedon always attack me early, any tips on how to build my army and where to position them?
Is it possible to get The Wolf's armor in any way? I know you get his helmet even if you kill him or don't kill him. But is it possible to get his armor? It would be really cool, you would look like a high ranked spartan general if you had his armor on?
