Sparta——bloody.doc

11111010417谭恋This is SpartaPersian Emissary：This is madness！Leonidas：Madness？This is Sparta！When refer to Sparta，the bloody of its army come to my mind. Yes，This is a world full of madness.The Spartans always attack others, they always fight or prepare for fight， which results in the lives of their own seem so tough. In their mind，it was the job of a man who was a citizen of a polis, beyond anything else to fight bravely in the ranks of his army. As it happened, and because the ethos was present，it was possible to put together a fighting unit.The treatment of the young indeed from the time they are born. The Spartans and the Greeks referred to this system of training and education as agoge. A Spartan child is born. Already from the very beginning this is not merely a matter that concerns their families. The decision that whether or not they should be allowed to live be made by the elders of the Spartan community who examine the child. The exam，almost entirely for his physical condition. If he is crippled, if they are deformed in any way, they will have him put to death，the new baby will be killed；And when they are born，their mother will have a shower for them with liquor ,if they can not bear ,they will let them alone ,finally die. And the reason for that was that they had a clue about eugenics. They understood that healthy children grow up to be healthy adults, who grow up typically to have healthy children and vice versa. They wont afford a man who would not become good soldier, thats what Spartans.Suppose a boy made it through that first ordeal，then he has six years normal life. But at the age of seven, he will be taken away from home, put into a word in Greek that really means pack，and they live in a military school，which is the only school there is for boys in Sparta. The school is governed by a magistrate and it is run by the older boys，the older boys were allowed to deal with younger boys, its tough to grow up in a place like that. If they made it now to he age of twelve，they live in the barracks, lacking of clothes, food, to make them tough. Whats more, they would try to steal whatever they could, but if they would be punished severely if they were caught. It was also part of the training. When he reaches twenty，After seven years old, a girl could still stay at home, but what they would be faced with is serious physical training. When she becomes a mother, she tells their son to go out to battle and come back with your shield or on it. They have already treat themselves serious，then their ruthlessness to helots seems so logical. The lives of helots are extremely difficult，they should be the pioneer at wartime, but have no rights, the Spartans could kill them at any time. To make the helots remember that they are only slavery，the Spartans will flog them once a year，for no reasons. Spartans just like this：No monuments, no poems of war and victor.His wish was simple.Should any free soul come across that place?In all the counties centuries yet to be may all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones Rule is so terrible, and what Spartans should do is that learn to be stronger, learn to bear, to adapt， For there is no place for weakness， Only the hard and strong may earl themselves Spartans. The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant，they reach the achievement that few stood against many.，but it is cruel that before t