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Spartan Hoplite - 12 by Andrea Mazzocchetti

The Spartiates considered themselves the only true hoplites.

In fact, the children were educated in the war and the use of weapons by a special structure desired by Licurgo and defined agoghé.

This system was introduced to Lacedemone around 669 BC. after having suffered a severe defeat by Argo, a forerunner of the use of the phalanx and the consequent revolt of Mexico. The order that followed, the eunomia, allowed the affirmation, on the military first and then on the social one, of the Spartan elite. The equals, "homoioi", lived only for the war and politics, the humble jobs were entrusted to the laotics.

Doric were the only inhabitants of the city who held civil and political rights, had the obligation to cultivate the art of war and participate in the syssitia. The literal meaning was "community of meals": it was common meals to which it was strictly forbidden to miss, but they were not mere banquets,...

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