Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
Even Spartacus needs a coach.
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.
We have researchers involved with the show [Spartacus] and they pointed me in a pretty great direction, in terms of what to read, and what to look at or look for, and they also provided me with some material.
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."
We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.