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Review title: An independent voice
Product review: I think it's high time that somebody wrote the truth about Sparta. Thanks mostly to writers like Stephen Pressfield, we somehow get the idea that these guys were basically ancient versions of ideal American combat buddies. Actually, the Spartans were possibly the least understandable of all the Greeks. Their society was a tyranny. They enslaved other Greeks. They mercilessly crushed democracies wherever they developed. What exactly do modern, freedom-loving Americans have to like about these guys?Nicastro's book is not anti-Spartan--it's just truthful. Contrary to what some of these other folks are saying, he's just as straight in dealing with the Athenians, who had their own problems. I give this author credit for tackling a hard subject, and doing it with skill and honesty.
