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Feb 2023
42m 27s

Things Were Marginally Better for Them! ...

Liv Albert
About this episode

In this final episode of the Spartan series, Liv goes through the lives of Spartan women. From worshipping and dancing with Helen to having your brother in law's babies, Spartan women had interesting and unique lives. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Lyra Graeca: being the remains of all the Greek lyric poets from Eumelus to Timotheus excepting Pindar by JM Edwards; “Spartan Women” from A Companion to Sparta, Volume II by Ellen G Millender; Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy; Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes; “Land Tenure and Inheritance in Classical Sparta” from The Classical Quarterly by Stephen Hodkinson; “The Women of Sparta” from The Classical Journal by James Redfield.

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