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The Spartans [TV Documentary Series] ()

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Created and hosted by historian Bettany Hughes, this three-episode PBS documentary series charted the rise and fall of the ancient, militaristic, communal civilization of Sparta in the Peloponnese. Through a combination of athletic and combat knowhow and stringent self-discipline, the Spartans were determined to vanquish all their neighbors and establish a Utopian society founded about strength and power. The series details the long, sometimes bloody, sometimes ideological war between the Spartans and their aesthetic ...

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