Constitution of the Spartans
Lakedaimonion Politeia
An admiring outsider's account of Spartan education, discipline, and daily life credits the legendary lawgiver Lycurgus with engineering a uniquely disciplined society, while a puzzling, seemingly misplaced penultimate chapter concedes that Sparta's own leaders had since abandoned his laws, before an unrelated closing chapter on the kingship.
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