The name Sparta, I'm afraid most people know it through movies. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because of the bravery shown by the heroic warriors in the movie, people typed in the keyword "Sparta" in various search engines.

And no matter which search engine or which entry, there is a common feature.

That's the saying that Sparta was a slave owner.

Raids were made to gather large numbers of local natives as slaves of Sparta, the Spartans were responsible for military and rule, and those slaves were responsible for providing food and grass.

Among them, the most tragic fate is the [Helots], who are called the "private property of the Spartans".

However, this description is far from the "Fight for Freedom" that Leonidas claims to describe.

There is such a thing as history, and the things that can be recorded are largely biased.

After all, as long as it is history, it must be what those in power want to see. For example, in the era of the heyday of Christianity and the unlimited power of the pope, all kinds of scandals about the clergy are difficult to write into history. Moreover, history is also written, recorded, and transmitted by people.

Since you are human, you must have your own thoughts and wills. There must be an aversion to their own hobbies. There must be their own momentary sloppiness and fallacies that will inevitably lead to word of mouth.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand why the city-state of Sparta has so little information.

The Spartans themselves did not encourage literature and creativity.

Not to mention poems and articles describing oneself, there are no murals that have been used since ancient times.

A nation does not record its own culture, and naturally, other countries can only record it with their own ideas.

A person who records history will try his best to ensure the reliability of history, but no matter how fair a person is, as long as he is still a human being, his pen will definitely have likes and dislikes.

The Spartans were militaristic, and from the point of view of the whole of Greece, they were a [wicked man].

In addition, the characteristics of the Greek city-states, that is, small countries and widows, independent and self-reliant, with a certain degree of closedness, and Sparta also happens to have the meaning of closing the country, which also leads to all the records about Sparta, either the Helots themselves have been processed by [hatred], or other city-states have added [speculation] and [from the point of view of common sense] chapters, which have long lost the original authenticity of history.

How did the king of Sparta explain the history of Spartan enslavement, which everyone - including the Helots themselves - thought it to be?

"The Heloh are free men. It's just a matter of different divisions of labor. ”

Leonida's calm revealed a deep disdain, and the resentful gaze seemed to penetrate through the torn pages to the writer's eyes.

In Leonidas' eyes, the Helots were free men. That's the conclusion.

There is an old Chinese saying that each party does its job.

For example, the army is specifically responsible for fighting, whether it is farming or mining, it is not their turn. In the same way, farmers are farmers, and miners are miners. It is the highest glory for a nation. It is funny to let people who study literature take care of water conservancy, and let people who study mathematics become defense ministers.

In the city-state of Sparta, the Spartans were soldiers, and they were not responsible for anything other than military training and warfare. The Helo people are farmers, and they are only responsible for planting.

As for slavery? That's nonsense.

"The Shilots are the same as the Spartans. They are all free people. It's just that the Spartans were only in charge of the military, while the Helots were only in charge of agriculture, each with its own duties, and that's it. ”

The clear eyes of the strong heroic spirit clearly reflected his upright heart.

Abner couldn't help but sigh: he thought so from the bottom of his heart......

It is true that the Helots were of poor standing and were often subject to scourging...... For other city-states, this was the act of slave owners against slaves.

But is that really the case?

If that's really the case, then the Spartans were also slaves.

Because the Spartans, like them, were constantly whipped by officers, parents, and priests.

For the Spartans had to be valiant and fearless, fearless of pain and death. So they used leather whips to exercise the strong hearts of the warriors.

In Sparta, whipping was definitely not a bad thing, but a blessing that contained the twisted meaning of wanting you to be incomparably stronger. In fact, Leonidas had been whipped countless times by his father and army commanders, and at least half of the scars on his body were left from training.

Look no further than Leonidas. This is a man who can carry a dislocated arm and still wield a weapon with a wounded arm, how much effort has actually been condensed in the seemingly simple action? If it weren't for the brutal training he received on weekdays, who would have been able to fight such a ferocious battle?

For the Spartans, the whipping of the Helots was to take them as a symbol of the Spartans' equality.

As for taxation, for the Spartans, it was state policy.

The characteristic of this barbaric city-state is [militarization]. Whether it is an administrative organization or a management level, it is like a huge military organization.

In the military, you don't have to be reasonable with anyone. In order to protect the family and defend the country, it is normal to collect grain and grass. The army does not care about "reason", and some only have [discipline]. The amount of grain to be used is distributed among all the peasants, and no matter what goes wrong, it must be handed over on time.

However, this was also common to the Spartans. Once the war began, the Spartans had to send out as many soldiers as they wanted, and no matter what went wrong, they had to assemble on time.

For example, the Battle of Thermopae Pass, where Leonidas was killed.

Sparta was celebrating a holiday and could not send troops, so Leonidas could only lead 300 men into battle.

300 or 200,000, as long as the brain is normal, you will understand which is bigger. But even so, Leonidas did not refuse. He didn't run away, he didn't retreat, he just silently led 300 people to the hot spring pass, and died bravely without fear.

The Helots were in charge of the rations, while the Spartans gave back to their army.

The Heloites must pay their grain on time, and they must pay their grain in quantity. The Spartans had to fight on time, no matter what the situation was, to the death.

"As for killing? huh...... Indeed, the Spartans often slaughtered the Shilots. ”

Speaking of the massacre, a cruel smile appeared on Leonidas' lips.

In that city-state where the jungle eats the jungle, killing is definitely not a taboo thing.

"But we didn't stop the Helos from slaughtering us in turn. Warriors are like that, either kill or be killed. Those who only want to kill people and don't want to be killed by others are the thoughts of [slave owners], and when the Spartans attacked the Shilots, they were ready to be killed by the Shilots instead. It was a combat drill for the [warriors], and as the commander of all Spartan men, I can proudly claim that there were only free men in the city-state of Sparta. ”

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Abner was silent.

There is something wrong with this man's values.

But come to think of it, if a person has a normal mind, he will definitely not make an action with 300 people against hundreds of thousands of troops.

In the eyes of the Spartans, those actions were normal. For they themselves are like this, whipping the Helots, and that is because they themselves are also whipped. The reason for collecting taxes is that they have also been taxed. In that utterly twisted city-state, Leonidas was just a warrior who had suffered greatly and believed in it.

During the coming-of-age ceremony, the Spartans carried very little food to the forest and hunted beasts of prey as a symbol of adulthood. It was this bloody law of nature that created the legend of the strongest Spartans.

Perhaps for the Helots, the rule of the Spartans was barbaric and cruel, and the Spartans were a group of muscular men with cruelty written in their bones.

But for the Spartans, it was still freedom.

That is to say...... What is the ideological difference between the Spartans and the Helots......"

Abner smiled wryly, that was really sad.

Obviously, the two nations can solve it by understanding each other a little, but they can't understand each other.

"Consciousness...... What's that?"

"No, nothing. It's almost time to go to dinner compared to this. ”

"Oh, food, that's really looking forward to it! Military rations are one of the driving forces for soldiers to fight to death!"