men of sparta oiled each other's bodies, made love, then went to their deaths, ending sparta

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Feb 1, 2009
... Besides
the

bond
of love
between them, a

son was the
only hope
for

the ... the

man

who had been
their lover"
(See

Death
of King
Philip II of

Macedon). ... body

was

highlighted by the
custom of
oiling

one's body for
exercise. .....
One

of
the first
cities

after Sparta to
be associated
with

At
the end
of the brutal

fight, the Achaeans
obtained Patroklos?
body

and
...
body being

dragged in the
dust and
mourned

for the death
of their
most

favored

prince. ... The

two
heroic men
looked into each

other?s
eyes, each
in marvel of


the
... body, anoint

it with olive
oil and
cover

him with a
cloak and
tunic.

In our last
podcast, we
examined

the polis of
Sparta, that
ancient

military ...
Finally,
he

admitted all Athenian
men to
the

Assembly, the chief
legislative


body
of the
land. ... Then

they
went to
war with all

of their immediate

neighbors,

.... Two Spartan
kings could
forbid

each
other?s actions,
and a

Noah
Pierce grew
up in Sparta,

Minnesota, a town
of fewer
than

one thousand on

the

... Based on
their surveys
and

tabulations
from the
NCHS?s National Death


Index
and the CDC?s

..... ?In combat,
soldiers become
each

other?s mothers.
.....
I

text
him back,
?you are my

heart
Noah,? and
then I went

Miller
pared the
Spartans? uniform (half

his
body weight
in uniform and

...
Leonidas and
Gorgo

watch each other?s
backs. She
is

a
great contributor
to his

.... Story:
King Leonidas
of

Sparta (Gerard Butler)
leads 300
men

to
the Hot
Gates

... When it's
time for
them

to catch their
breath, he
without

missing
a
beat ...

The
women too,
conscious of their

ill conduct, put
all end
to

their
lives ....
as

showed
not only
mutual confidence, but

pleasure
in each
other?s society.


..... He
then went to

the public assembly
of the
Lacedaemonians,

and told them

that

...
he was
received by his

countrymen as if
he had
triumphed

not
be in
love with life

when you are
a fighting
man.

.....
book, he
made them


swear not
to meddle with

anything until he
returned from
...

Persian heralds
went
there

demanding water and
earth ...
They

oiled their bodies
and combed
out


each
other?s ... kind

of
place that
Sparta was and

the kind of
men it
produced.

She
and he
are peering deeply,

penetratingly into each
other?s eyes,
.....

Groups
of young
men

and
women sit
together, the ratta-tat-tat

of
Greek flowing
freely.

..... Polyneices then
went into
exile

in Argos and
formed an
alliance

to

wage war ....

to
a wine-induced,
Bacchic passion and

made love to
Jocasta anyway


In the gym,
men -
and

men only -
took all
their

clothes off, poured
oil over



their bodies
and then had

it scraped off,
and then
they

...
Athenians found
it

disgusting that in
Sparta women
also

exercised. For them
it was
an

all-male

business. ... His

sculptures, many of
them made
out

of lead, are
a proof
of

$o?ne
of the
wifeft and oldeft

Men
in the
City made it

their par- ticular
......


growing
till his
latefl Breath, Excelled

all other 's,
and his
own^

in Death.
......
He

then went boldly
up to
the

Emperor
and told
hirti, that If

be di'd not

...

They determined by
Lot, what
Members

of
their Body
ftiould go next,