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Jiang presents Spartan education as a trauma-bonding system that turns abused children into soldiers loyal to older male commanders.
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Jiang presents Spartan education as a trauma-bonding system that turns abused children into soldiers loyal to older male commanders.
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He explains Sparta as a conservative oligarchic land society built around controlling Helot labor, while Athens becomes a democratic naval society because rowers fight and therefore vote.
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Spartan society is organized around keeping Helots under control; Helots are both Sparta’s resource and its danger.
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Jiang says Greek victory still carried an ethic of virtue, faith, loyalty to gods, and refusal to behave like barbarians.
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Pausanias’ refusal to mutilate Mardonius shows Jiang’s early-Greek contrast between Greek virtue and barbarian violence.
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Athens and Sparta avoid decisive options because each would destroy its own social equilibrium by freeing Helots or letting them control Sparta.
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Jiang uses Spartan education as evidence that ritualized brutality, hazing, mentorship, and sexual bonds can manufacture brotherhood and military synchronicity.
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Jiang says Sparta's killing of helots functioned as sacrifice: it made Sparta hated, but also unified and militarily dominant.
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"So these Spartans need to be really cohesive as a society. They need to fight and die for each other. So their education system..."
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"is the man first of course commits you know sexual abuse but again because the child is traumatized because the child has no bearings..."
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"But the two major polises are Athens and Sparta. And Athens and Sparta are both Greek, but they're different societies. In fact, they're nothing..."
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"...very similar to China. And as a result of this system, Sparta was an oligarchy, meaning ruled by the few. So only Spartans who..."
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"...You can speak in public. You can participate in politics. Now, Sparta was a land army with hoplites. Hoplites are elite soldiers. And as..."
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"...And so over time, because Athens is a democracy that's expanding, Sparta is a land power. Athens will start to increase in power. Sparta..."
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"Okay? So, remember that the two major city states are Sparta and Athens. Thebes is the third major city state. Macedonia is up here..."
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"So, the Spartans were concerned first and foremost about how to turn their boys into warriors. And so, the first thing they did that's..."
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"Okay? They built a real camaraderie fraternity in the army. And then in 1819 the initiation ceremony where at night they would hide in..."
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"So these two passages show you the difference between empire and the borderlands right? The empire is about mass organization death. The borderlands the..."
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"so what will happen is that now that Xerxes is gone now that the navy is scattered Mardonius is kinda screwed okay? And so..."
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"Pausanias answered I admired your good intentions and your foresight but you have failed to form a right judgment for having highly extolled me..."
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