The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World

"Come Back Carrying Your Shield or On It" (1x15)

: 01, 2009

Spartan women played a more overt role in public life than their counterparts in Athens, exhorting their sons to die in battle rather than survive in defeat. Sparta's slaves, or helots, far outnumbered the Spartans—and created an internal security problem that may have triggered Sparta's obsession with military superiority.