This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world - Craig Zimmer

In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with foreign invaders was a way of life, and Greeks were considered premier warriors. Sparta, specifically, had an army of the most feared warriors in the ancient world. What were they doing to produce such fierce soldiers? Craig Zimmer shares some of the lessons that might have been taught at Spartan school.

Lesson by Craig Zimmer, animation by TED-Ed.

[yogawarriorgirl]

As my history teacher said, when in Ancient Greece, if you were a man, you wanted to be in Athens, but if a woman, you wanted to be in Sparta.

[raveleijntv]

In case people wanna know what the tombstones said.
" Leonidas. died in battle"
"elene. died during child birth."
I see what you did there....

[megakangaroo]

School: gets in a fight and get expelled
Sparta: Gets in a fight and get awarded.

[mariaioannadritsa]

As a greek, i need to say that i love TED-ED & approve this video
I would also like to add one thing ; The mothers in Sparta were very "hard" with their sons. They expected of them either to win or die in battle. Actually, there is a quote
"Either you come to me a victor with your shield or dead on your shield "
ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς

^^

[atouloupas]

First of all, modern historians call Spartans like this because they were from Sparta. However did you know that they were called Lacedaemons (Λακεδαιμονείς) and not Spartans (Σπαρτιάτες)? Have you ever wondered what this big nice Λ on a Spartan shield is? It's the Λ from the word Λακεδαιμονείς! But Lacedaemons did call their biggest city Sparta.

[thefuzzyfurnace]

Please please please do another lesson on other greek city states

[ImERnest]

I love the random "Sparta!" in the background

[nikdelta]

THIS

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A pretty informative video thanks for posting

[KumakOwO]

I feel like this is one of the only time periods/ancient civilizations where being a woman was actually better than being a man

[JimFortune]

It makes no sense to say that all Spartans, men and women, were taught to read and write, but forbidden to leave records.

[PhantomZephyrV]

I would like to see a video about Alexander the Great

[miraato-aj]

I will name my future first baby boy 'Sparta' so whenever I'd introduce him I can scream "THIS IS SPARTA"

[decommissionedunitnanotech]

Europe: We have walls. Where's yours?

Spartans: ...



*WE ARE THE WALLS*

[jillianyoung]

I love the background music randomly screaming

[derekl]

"Mommy, look at this hunky guy with a spear! I'm gonna be like him when I grow up!"

Well damn 2 years later I return
Thanks to everyone who saw this worthless comment

[dafuqmr]

i can only imagine that sparta's woman probably looks like a fit gym woman, damn

[tainoman]

Basically Sparta was the equivalent of trying to make real life super soldiers

[High_Rate]

"In Sparta it was believed that only strong and capable women could bare children that would become strong and capable warriors."

I mean, from a hereditary genetics standpoint, they were not wrong.

[jeretoon]

I love the random “SPARTA!!” Every once in awhile

[milospopovic]

Both died so that Sparta could live, what an inspirational quote.