The Spartans (2002)
The rise and fall of one of the most extreme civilisations the world has ever witnessed – one founded on discipline, sacrifice and frugality, centred on the collective, whose goal was to create the perfect state and the perfect warrior.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Sparta's Social System2002-11-17 · 1h 0mPart 1 deals with the arrival of the Dorian settlers into the Eurotas valley, with a discussion of the dark-age culture that lived there before, that of Menelaus, and his wife Hele
- 2 2. Sparta's Rivalry2002-11-24 · 1h 0mPart 2 opens with the retreat of the Persians, after Thermopylae and the battle of Salamis. Athens, which had been allied with Sparta against Persia, begins to experience an expand
- 3 3. Sparta's Destruction2002-12-01 · 1h 0mPart 3 introduces Alcibiades, an Athenian statesman who defects to Sparta and becomes an adviser and strategist. In particular, he suggests that Sparta takes the war to Syracuse, i
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