Hi Shaun, Thanx for your comments My real name is Aurélien but my friends call me Orel. I'd love my website to be translated in english, but unfortunately, my...
Hi all Thx for your reply Kenneth, that will help a lot. I have seen many documentaries about spartans ( historical channel... ) but they focus on the (most...
Hey Orel, Your making a video game about Sparta? That is so cool. Are you going to make it public, Because I would buy it. Tom Orel <orel.catteau@...>...
Not sure if you have seen this web site before, but it should help as a map of ancient Sparta. http://www.losttrails.com/pages/Hproject/Sparta/SpartaMap.html ...
In the photos of 'thephalanx' I've stuck the only two images of ancient sparta that I have come across, in the folder called 'Sparta'. I can't remember where I...
Hi Shaun, Ive posted a message to your mail, and hope to talk more about Greece. My best regards to all of this list, Giuseppe - the Reghion Hoplite...
George, I know you are trying to be helpful, but the two images you posted, one a topographical map of Sparta and the drawing, are totally missleading for...
woops sorry. never really knew if it was correct or not, it was just the only images I have ever come across. gt ... George, I know you are trying to be...
Thanks, Ken. Paul Kenneth Forbis <kent4@...> wrote: Athens of the mid 5th Century B.C. was the exception in the Greek World which no other polis could...
Orel, the roof of Spartan houses was definitely tiled- tiles having become popular all over greece at a much earlier date. Interestingly, the type of barrel...
Ken's answer was really informative for me and I have some remarks. I think that picture of present-day Sparta could help to give better image appearance of...
So what were the reasons for the decline of Sparta. My take on it was that it had nothing to do with the army because it was still a very able fighting force...
David Zamperini
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Apr 5, 2006 12:54 am
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We could be discussing this for years David. I agree with you that it weakend Sparta but not enough to lead to their downfall. They were practicing your ...
I don't disagree with the previous points,but I think what made Sparta decline was the fact that she changed during the Peloponnesian war in a way no other...
I came across a scholarly article written about this subject last year. This one connected the decline of Sparta with the unusual, and ironically, priveleged...
Wow, there is some mass generalisations here; "-decline of Sparta. My take on it was that it had nothing to do with the army" (too general a comment, it had to...
I can't swollow that statement, look at; Persia Greece Rome Spain Russia Germany France ....they all haven't lasted, not one. Even (now I am being very...
... the Hitler comment got to do with the reason Sparta was overthrown?) ... last. ... I agree with George.We talked too generally,there were many reasons.I've...
I can't swollow that statement, look at; Persia Greece Rome Spain Russia Germany France ... Cheers L ... To help you stay safe and secure online, we've...
points well taking but with new developments in military tactics such as deeping the ranks in the phalanx the small population of Sparta did not allow her to...
David Zamperini
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Apr 5, 2006 2:43 pm
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... saved the culture and civilization of Ancient Greece for the rest of us, but Sparta was a model for Hitler's war machine and their treatment of the helots...
Hi, George, The message below is not one piece; it contains some remarks from David and some from me. George T <pj2105@...> wrote: Wow, there is some...
... irrelevant here: neither Rousseau nor Thomas Jefferson created a State which actually copied the Spartan. I think the founding father's of the USA would be...
Paul Bardunias <Bardunias@...> wrote: --- In thephalanx@yahoogroups.com, PAUL ALLEN <paulallen89@...> ... irrelevant here: neither Rousseau nor Thomas...
In the main I think George T's remarks on April 4 about the decline of the city state of Sparta are reasonable and sensible and I would like to associate...
... it is simply that I, like most people, have an overall view which is based on what I have found in learning about Sparta. I am willing to be persuaded that...
Regarding childbirth this is my REAL point. Sparta was (this is all my opinion) probably better off killing the deformed children. Children were bread for ...
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