[yarddog]

There was a lot to admire about the Spartans but even more to fear. They truly were great warriors but could be really brutal. Their treatment of the Helots was about as bad as slavery gets.

It always interested me that Sparta depended on slaves more than any other civilization but hardly anyone ever mentions it.

I will say one thing for them. After they defeated Athens, their allies, particularly the Thebans wanted to destroy Athens but the Spartans remembered when they had fought together against Persia and spared them.

[Dick Vomer]

all armies that conquered or took "prisoners" had slaves. That's what they mean by "to the victor goes the spoils".

you kill all the warriors, kill the male children or enslaved the rest and if they were unfit, unwilling or a burden...death.

AND.......... of course the Spartans had to be homosexuals, just like ALL the Greeks, Romans, Crusaders, just like all the writers, poets, composers, DaVinci, Michaelagelo, Abe Lincoln, Shakespeare(or a woman), Andrew Jackson, and anybody else that accomplished anything in history.

If you want to be a famous man..... head to the bus station bathrooms or the city park bathrooms in order to meet your destiny.

Gawd, I'm so frickin sick of hearing about gays....