Rereading about Sparta, they seem to have suffered from massive sexual dysfunction. Men who did not marry were forbidden to attend the Naked Boys Festival. They were forced to parade naked in the agora, singing self-demeaning songs and suffering the jokes of the public. Spartan populations never took off, partly due to pederasty and partly due to the rejection of non pure-blood Spartans. Cruel, racist, military society.
Sparta was the union of four villages — Limnae, Pitana, Mesoa, and Cynosoura located near the Spartan acropolis (see map). It evolved into the most stable polis (they were most cautious about internal frictions, living in constant fear of their Messenian subjects), well-ordered and secretive.
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