Sparta – X

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Published in: on September 25, 2013 at 6:07 pm  Comments (6)  

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  1. On September 23, 2014 at 6:42 pm César Tort said:

    “…in a moral universe where the abduction of Helen (and of the Sabine women) provided the foundation myths of the greatest contemporary political entities, such an act was as likely to seem heroic as disreputable.”

    —John Boswell

  2. On August 3, 2015 at 8:04 pm clytemnestra57 said:

    Thank you for such interesting information. A very fine example of equal yoking.

    And when I talk about equal yoking, I am not talking about a false equivalency where the outcomes must be identical with no result being greater than the other.

    The one thing I got was that the men and women of Sparta had duties to discharge and jurisdictions they ruled. The women managed the micro by maintaining hearth, home and lands. The men understood that their function was to defend the greater country while the women kept the home fires burning. So it makes sense that their roles were more macro than micro,

    The best analogy I can make is the men were the equivalent of federal governors while the women were state governors.

    The union can only be strong if the state does not secede.

    If there is cooperation, that adds to the stability, but if the power dynamics shift too hard where one gets too much leverage over the other, chaos must ensue.

  3. On October 26, 2015 at 11:03 pm blabla said:

    “is nor impressive”? Shouldn’t it be “is not impressive”?

    • On October 26, 2015 at 11:58 pm César Tort said:

      Fixed.

  4. On November 5, 2016 at 10:56 pm War of the sexes, 17 | The West’s Darkest Hour said:

    […] The blogger comments that he has seen videos in the manosphere claiming that women are evil. He counters that that is only true if we consider that spoiled children are evil. When women are under our control they behave reasonably well. By empowering them they become bad but neither they nor the children are intrinsically evil: they should simply be controlled. It’s only when women are left to their own devices that they do become bad. Our goal should be to treat our spouses as we treat children. However, it must be pointed out that even these patriarchal societies are gynocentric—even the super-Yang Sparta was gynocentric! […]

  5. On November 6, 2018 at 10:09 am Sam J. said:

    I don’t think this is correct. My reasoning is the Spartans were defeated because they ran out of Spartans. Their Women refused or were unable to have enough children. Spartan Women made Sparta fall.


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