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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Mar 8, 2016 ^^
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First of all, modern historians call Spartans like this because they were from Sparta. However did you know that they were called Lacedaemons (Λακεδαιμονείς) and not Spartans (Σπαρτιάτες)? Have you ever wondered what this big nice Λ on a Spartan shield is? It's the Λ from the word Λακεδαιμονείς! But Lacedaemons did call their biggest city Sparta.
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As a greek, i need to say that i love TED-ED & approve this video
I would also like to add one thing ; The mothers in Sparta were very "hard" with their sons. They expected of them either to win or die in battle. Actually, there is a quote
"Either you come to me a victor with your shield or dead on your shield "
ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς
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@yogawarriorgirl
7 years ago
As my history teacher said, when in Ancient Greece, if you were a man, you wanted to be in Athens, but if a woman, you wanted to be in Sparta.
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