What where the public buildings and houses like in sparta?

Sparta was a weird society in constant military training and an ongoing campaign against the majority slave population. Remember, only Athens was a democracy. The Romans admired Athens, granted her privileges and visited Sparta for amusements.

Thucydides wrote:

Suppose the city of Sparta to be deserted, and nothing left but the temples and the ground-plan, distant ages would be very unwilling to believe that the power of the Lacedaemonians was at all equal to their fame. Their city is not built continuously, and has no splendid temples or other edifices; it rather resembles a group of villages, like the ancient towns of Hellas, and would therefore make a poor show.

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2 Responses to “What where the public buildings and houses like in sparta?”

deonejuan on November 26th, 2009 at 11:29 am

Sparta was a weird society in constant military training and an ongoing campaign against the majority slave population. Remember, only Athens was a democracy. The Romans admired Athens, granted her privileges and visited Sparta for amusements.

Thucydides wrote:

Suppose the city of Sparta to be deserted, and nothing left but the temples and the ground-plan, distant ages would be very unwilling to believe that the power of the Lacedaemonians was at all equal to their fame. Their city is not built continuously, and has no splendid temples or other edifices; it rather resembles a group of villages, like the ancient towns of Hellas, and would therefore make a poor show.
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mccoyblues on November 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Sparta Georgia?

Sparta is so small there are only three buildings in the entire town and two of them are boarded up.
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