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Context for the last line: Instant loss 2-koma is a genre of (usually NSFW) anime art divided into two panels, with a character proudly proclaiming something on the first panel and then being proven incredibly wrong on the second.
Sparta is possibly the great exception to "the winner writes history" rule. Fuckers were absolute assholes left and right, only had a good k/d ratio against their own slaves and thought writing was "for those sissy Athenians", yet they're still seen as this mythical nation of uber warriors, not to mention that their biggest claim to fame in modern day culture is a battle they lost.
I can't imagine why our modern fascist society lionizes a militaristic death cult. Someone should look into that.
From an extremely defensible position no less
A battle the Greeks thought they would win and their whole plan counted on.
They aren't the exception, they're the proof it's wrong.
The victors don't write history, historians write histories.
Lots of historians have had their work altered or destroyed, so that doesn't work either.
The common understanding of Sparta is like the Wild West; Sparta operated as a theme park for several centuries while under Roman occupation, and that theme park's marketing was so popular that it displaced the plentiful historical records of them eating shit from the public consciousness.
No matter what historians say, Spartans will continue to exist as a hypermasculine warriors just like knights will continue to exist as chivalrous gentlemen and like cowboys will continue to exist like badass gunslingers. Because in the end,
History is written by the advertisers.
Kind of like saying authors don't write the novels fanfictions are based on imo
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