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Spartan General by Andrea Mazzocchetti

An artwork inspired by the figure of a powerful Spartan general. These were elite elements of the strong and legendary Spartan army, the greatest example of war art in the ancient world. It is still valued today for its ethics and its moral rigor: those who were military in Sparta had to be an example for the community. In the heyday of Sparta (between the sixth and fourth centuries BC), it was said that "a Spartan soldier was worth many more men than any other army". The strength of the Spartan army was essentially founded on the system of alliances because the army could not rely only on the limitedness of human resources.
The Spartan army did not fight to conquer, to make loot, to expand its territory (also because it would not have had the strength to control it). Courage was one of the main strengths for the Spartans.
The Spartan army was mainly composed of the hoplites (infantry units, more common than ancient Greece), they...

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