King Leonidas I of Sparta, Reputation (300)

No retreat, no surrender, that is Spartan Law An iconic film that is hilariously inaccurate, but I still love to watch it At the age of 7, a Spartan boy now comes under the direct control of the city of Sparta until his time of death. The boys left home to live in barracks, in an ancient boarding school known as Agoge. The aim of this system primarily was to develop physical strength and were spurred on to fight one another. This brutal yet effective system created the greatest infantry ever known in the Ancient Greek world, Spartiates. Literally badass hoplites. I like that Leonidas says In the end, a Spartans true strength is the warrior next to him and this is what ultimately determines the effective of a phalanx. In the end, their rigid archaic system and way of life is what paved the way for their decline. A Spartan had to follow their law otherwise face disownment from Sparta, even a King such as Pausanias of Sparta during the Corinthian War was forced t