01-04-2008, 05:25 PM
My biggest problem with Pressfield's Spartiates is that he has them interact like soldiers in a barracks in a WWII movie. His model for their interaction is the type of discipline seen in a conscript army.
Spartiates were an elite, a better model would have been the interactions between officer class Victorian Englishmen- who conciously paralleled spartans.
Spartiates were an elite, a better model would have been the interactions between officer class Victorian Englishmen- who conciously paralleled spartans.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
