Why The Alt-Right LOVE Spartans, 300 and the Battle of Thermopylae - Video

The Spartans of Ancient Sparta are hailed as one of the greatest fighting forces in the history of mankind. Beginning their training as children, Spartan men would serve in the military from 20 years old to 60. They fought numerous wars against surrounding Greek states and also most famously the Persian empire.

In recent history, the 1930s fascists loved the society designed by the Spartans and used them in their propaganda. In modern times, the alt-right have found a symbol that shows the West standing against the ‘East’ represented by the Battle of Thermopylae. They have only become more popular thanks to 300, the Zack Snyder film that depicts this battle in an insanely orientalist way which helped make it easy to use nationalist propaganda especially in Greece.

I break down the historical revisionism inherent in the myth of Sparta.

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