Except life expectancy on the Ancient Greek battlefield was far higher than most. For one the troops were Heavily armored thru the 4th century. To the extent it would not be seen again until the Roman Empire around 27BC. Bronze armor was as effective at protection as iron. It fell out of favor because a mine collapsed and it could not be repaired when damaged. The Hoplite fighting style when fighting other Hoplites resorted to pushing matches and discipline of drill. At this the Spartans were experts. They had the only real standing military that only focused on the military for a very long period of time. When fighting against other nations Greek Hoplite warefare was vastly superior as Hoplites were Heavily armored and protected, fought predominantly with the Dori a 6-8ft spear, and fought in tight formations. This produced very high casualties to other nations as they were no where near as armored or had weapons that could easily defeat Hoplite armor and fighting.

Definitely someone I wouldn't want to get in a hand to and fight with.

That's what people might have liked to believe, when in reality, they just might have not fought on the front lines.

It's almost the exact opposite when it comes to the Norse. You want to die in the shield wall with your brethren and see Valhalla

“Internet users always attribute quotes to me I never said” - That same Athenian

@@h.t.awesome3822 “internet users always attribute quotes to me i never said” - that same athenian

If it's the story I've heard before, it was a rich Greek from Magna Grecia (Megas Hellas), in Southern Italy.

In Asterix comics there is a saying "More disgusting is the food, more powerful is the army, as disgusting food makes the Roman soldier always angry so more performing in battle"

The guy who said it was not Athenian but from Sybaris, South Italy, a Greek city renowned for its luxurious lifestyle. They went on to war against Croton and the Crotoniates butchered them, then besieged them, burnt their city and sold women and children to slavery. Athenians were in fact quite very keen on training as well.

Or women who bore sons

@@demarcusfaulkner7411 Source ?

Yes. Persian women had it better than women in Athens OR Sparta- Persian women sometimes led armies, had the same jobs, the same pay, were paid more after a pregnancy, could choose their own husbands.

@@bvllseye4068 professor Charles Ingram my sophomore history teacher at Ole Miss.

@@demarcusfaulkner7411 Let's have a round of applause for Professor Charles Ingram!

Ikr 💀

@@alal2192 lol💀

True

A reason to get fat in Sparta.

Haha, problem is if you didn't have any wealth, exile could very well be a death sentence. It wasn't always as easy as simply joining another city/state, and as you can imagine it was very dangerous in the wild

Hi

This is baby abuse

@@Tuturial464 THIS IS SPARTA!!

@@Tuturial464 this is a different era

You forgot that they were allowed to make more babies lol

Yes. Like what Japanese soldiers were told during World War 2. 😟😟😟

My name is teleport

We need to bring Spartan regime back for men!

Getting your head shaved and given new clothes is worst then being yanked from your family at a young age and abused for years?

@@smokedfuckinsausages9257 He wasn't saying it is worse he is just saying why it happened.

Probably that as well but cmon

@@smokedfuckinsausages9257 is that a rethorical question?

In other words,eugenic cucceree

It was probably BS anyway. Physical fitness is not even that important in the ancient military, drilling and discipline are far more important. If that story is true, this kind of open marriage situation was probably caused for different reasons

Ah i can smell the spartan cologne from 2022

Not only that but the Spartan men would get, eh, "close" to the Spartan boys 😏

Raising someone else's child as your own is hardly the same as artificially manipulating genes at the cellular/molecular level.

nah 10xtimes harder

Yet the Romans would have destroyed them with superior tactics. Sparta makes me admire the Romans in comparison.

Gotta be crazy in a world equally as crazy, a world where you could die at literally any second.

@@barnacleboi2595 It sounds like a Monday to me 🙂

They should have been PC lgbtq but they didn't have an email to receive the future memo of our safe space paradise -

@@hismastersvoice4184 oh they were lgbtq alright lol

Yet they still died off.

@@MetaKnight964 just like saiyans

@@MetaKnight964 Everything and Everyone dies. The greatest warriors, the smartest scholars, the richest merchants and the greatest civilizations. The one thing we all have in common is the long dark

@@MetaKnight964 theres a nice video out there explaining how the spartan empire became assimilated into Rome...

Did you become a seal

Weren't all the Greek cities it's own separate countries? It was tribalism no? Which is why the Roman's where able to conquer the Greeks.

@@albertbecerra It like seems like there was Greece and Greek society, and then Sparta was off doing its own thing.

@@phantommangagirl oh I see, you mean like these Greeks had their standards of living and did what the norm was for them, meanwhile Spartans are......sacking everything 😆. Yeah I see your point

@@phantommangagirl That's partially because what we think of as "Greek society" is mainly Athens, Sparta's rival. Sparta did participate in the rest of Greek Society (they won the Persian Wars), and they were able to collect enough allies to form the Peloponnesian League that defeated Athens. Their culture definitely was somewhat different from the rest of Greece though.

@@albertbecerra they sacked very little

Ah, you mean I Am?

@@brandonfremer6367 yes. Thank you. I forgot how it was called

who "you" there are like 20 people working on this videos if not more.

@@lucaskp16 you as in the team as a whole, the you that is conglomerate identity that is the channel itself and the people that work within

I agree! This video would be so much more brutal through the eyes of a Spartan ingant/boy/man.

Lol! 🤣 I get it!

Uhhh .. I'll laugh later

@@low-keyrighteous9575 Don't bother

@@iamtwone3 why was six afraid of seven ? Because seven eight nine ....

@@low-keyrighteous9575 So funny I forgot to laugh

They were perfect muscled war machines. Bring Spartan regime back for men!

@@Fat-Queen1 💯

Sparta won a series of wars, and became a full on empire. But their number of Spartans became less. They couldn’t replace losses fast enough, but they kept going to war.

to show they have an owner?

@@lucaskp16 🤔

@@lucaskp16 I mean yeah. That's what marriage is. It's a very Kantian thing to say but it's how it should be.

@@lucifer2b666 That doesn't make sense. How would shaving your head mean that. Anyway, that's messed up in itself.

John, you are a real man.. wish more were like you

Why

@@hannahlarocco4699 it's a quote from this episode. It made me laugh 😁👍

@@hannahlarocco4699 It's a cheeky reference to 300

"Almost"

They had guns in Ancient times??

Eh ... NO , obviously . Gunpowder was first invented by the Chinese eons afterwards . When we talk about ancient weapons we mean ; Swords , spears , shields , axes , helmets , breastplates etc .

It’s spelled *you’re, and it seems like you’re the one that needs more intelligence.

🤓@@Kirsten_is_cursed10

bring back Spartan regime for men!

ive seen some things before in some vids :)

That was the Sacred Band of Thebes.

For that reason they gone to war with happiness Like a break

That's completely wrong. They read poetry and played music, they went to hunting, and had many other activities. They weren't really more fit than other Greeks. They had better discipline because none of them had real jobs, so they could drill more.

very little time was spend on that

Bring back Spartan regime for men!

Imagine getting beaten by your own country well if they where together maybe they could have stopped rome from conquering them

@@fliksn Pfft, Philipp of macedon thought it not woth the effort to crush tjem finally. spartans were by no means military superior in battle

more than twice the thebans alone delivered at least 3 crushing defeats on them and most spartan soldiers were helots, periokai etc not homoioi

@@thodan467 yeah 3x thats alot

Thats why due to their numbers, they were trained to be musclebound bodybuilders. Bring Spartan regime back for men!

🎶go go go go shorty You can find me with a club.... Got told by my bub to come back with my sheild and she'll give me love.... When i pull up with my chariot at the front i see Archimedes on dub Mama I got that sword i aint to giving hugs So come here if you wanna battle i aint into giving love

Musclebound war machines who went to battle in leather thongs. We need to bring back spartan regime for men again!

Exactly. They didn't know any different so I bet for them it was an honor to be a Spartan 🤷‍♀️

@@sisu4134 what is curious to the fly is normal to the spider

@@sisu4134 yes exactly the reason , the helotes refused to be freed

Well, of course they wouldn't throw them off a cliff. they're not savages. Obviously, they conducted their infanticides in a much more dignified manner. lol

@Kyle Pagayon haha ya

He mentions that a like 5 seconds after mentioning the the cliff story.

Athenian 😁

A lot of exaggeration and a good amount of just plain wrong info here.

@@Tlyna1952 Right couldn’t agree more!

Can you please tell us what were the wrong info? I want to learn something new.

>a greek still being salty about spartans thousands of years after spartans are long gone >somewhere in spartan heaven, a spartan still chuckles

@Dioko mad American hahahahahaha

They had no choice, if you were born a boy in Sparta, you're a Spartan.

@@Fat-Queen1 the Agoge, the people in charge of training the Spartans, was meant to be cruel and intense. Their elders would beat the child until they can no longer stand. They would march back to camp at night or become food for wolves. They would fight for scraps or starve.

@@princeofpokemon2934 Yes! They spent every single day being trained brutally and bodybuilding, this went on for 14 years until they reached the age of 21. By the time they left the agoge they were musclemen!

@@princeofpokemon2934 They also went to war in leather thongs! mmmm

@@Fat-Queen1 that's something I cannot unsee

It was a brutal world

Agreed! Bring back Spartan regime for men!

You make the most of what you have the most available of.

Yeah I know that but I’m wondering about all the countries

@@sirnight6438 You're absolutely right. However, I think that Americans also eat A LOT of chickens.

Mine is the dance battle.

his character was kind of unsettling idk

Lol you realize those "real" men were sleeping with other men haha

Sometimes it takes a man to "'take it like a man"

agreed! Bring back Spartan regime for men.

Touch grass

hundreds of thousands of men if not millions did that in a phalanx , shieldwall without homoioi upbringing. most spartans who fought in the phalanx lacked that also. and the homoioi were not a superior military aristocracy you mean like the persians and medes did with babylon, milet etc.

But there would be no real savings because the psychological impact of relentless Body Shaming would cause depression and other mental health problems.

It was, kinda, not that unusual age among the Greeks. They were most advanced civilization by that time, almost anywhere else, things was even more horrible.

@@user-vw4bn4ne6d 👌

Those were conscripted men

What about the night mares of past he was suffering from

bring back Spartan regime for men!

Bring back Spartan regime for men!

How?

Has anyone told the Spartan Program and that Mad Scientist (from the Halo tv series) about this?

You sir are the hero we need but do not deserve

Mmm 😋 cyanide corn dogs

I’d love ya for it and take one even faster if I saw a fellow patron sharing something from home! My gf would flip out and tell management(she’s not a ‘Karen’ btw, but she works in food safety)