The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World

Sparta, the Odd-Man-Out State in Greece (1x13)

Fecha de emisión: May 01, 2009

Turn to the polis that was the odd man out: Sparta. Other Greeks viewed the Spartans with a combination of admiration and alarm for their austere military culture. Yet in the early Archaic period, Sparta was developing like other Greek cities until it underwent a radical transformation.