![]() Their education focused primarily on sports and war tactics, but also included poetry, music, academics, and sometimes politics. Under the agoge the young boys or Spartiates were kept under intense and rigorous military training. Those deemed strong were then put in the agoge at the age of seven. If the baby was found to be weak, he was left at Mount Taygetus to die. A Spartan man's involvement with the army began in infancy when he was inspected by the Gerousia. In his famous quote of Sparta having a "wall of men, instead of bricks", he proposed to create a military-focused lifestyle reformation in the Spartan society in accordance to proper virtues such as equality, austerity, strength, and fitness. ![]() The iconic army was first coined by the philosopher Lycurgus. ![]() At the height of Sparta's power – between the 6th and 4th centuries BC – it was commonly accepted that, "one Spartan was worth several men of any other state." Subject to military drill from infancy, the Spartans were one of the most feared military forces in world history. The Spartan army stood at the centre of the Spartan state, whose citizens' primary obligation was to be good soldiers. ![]() ![]() Statue by the British Archaeological School in 1920 to commemorate King Leonidas I, who led the Spartan army at the Battle of Thermopylae. For other uses, see Military history of Sparta (disambiguation). "Military history of Sparta" redirects here. ![]()
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