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Review title: Stands on its own
Product review: Overall I enjoyed Nicastro's handling of the mundane Spartan life back home. While I agree that Pressfield's Gates of Fire depicted the battle scenes with better detail and gripping vision, Nicastro impressed me with his depictions of the Rearing, the period of brutal training for boys beginning at the age of seven, and with the other scenes of Spartan life.At the end of the novel, when the Spartans had surrendered and been led away in captivity, this book broke my heart at the depiction of how some of the soldiers' family members were treated back home. While there is much to be admired in the Spartan's culture, there is much to be loathed as well. And Nicastro's passage of the ultimate fate of an infant who was not found worthy to be accepted in Spartan society moved me deeply. I read those two pages over and over. For me, that passage alone was worth the price of the book.
