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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Laconophile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Those who admire the Spartans praise their valor in war, their military success, their aristocratic and virtuous ways, the stable order of their political life and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government.
Many (it is uncertain how many) of the young men who paid Socrates to teach them had been Laconophiles.
One of them had been Critias, leader of the Thirty Tyrants; another was to fight with the Spartans against Athens (when Socrates was accused of corrupting the young, the jury was expected to remember this kind of thing).
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 Laconophile - meaning of word
Those who admire the Spartans praise their valor in war, their military success, their aristocratic and virtue ways, the eunomia of their political life and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government.
(Of course, these categories overlapped; Cimon was proxenus of the Spartans at Athens, and named one of his sons Lacedaemonius.) The extreme Laconophile oligarchs seized power in Athens in 404 BC, and held it for eleven months, with the assistance of a Spartan army.
In fact, it became part of the Laconophile tradition, as in Plutarch, that Lycurgus found the inherited, Dorian.
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Those who admire the Spartans praise their valor in war, their military success, their aristocratic and virtue virtuous ways, the eunomia stable order of their political life and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government.
(Of course, these categories overlapped; Cimon was proxenus representative of the Spartans at Athens, and named one of his sons Lacedaemonius.) The extreme Laconophile oligarchs seized power in Athens in 404 BC, and held it for eleven months, with the assistance of a Spartan army.
One of them had been Critias, leader of the Thirty Tyrants; Xenophon another was to fight with the Spartans against Athens.
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 [Laconophile] | [All the best Laconophile resources at beds.velocityincome.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Laconophile Mueller and the Dorians Mueller and the Dorians
Laconophile Related Works Related Works The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain, Frank Turner, New Haven and London The Victorians and Ancient Greece, R. Jenkyns, Oxford The Spartan Tradition in European Thought, E. Rawson, Oxford, Paideia, Werner Jaeger.
The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, Paul Cartledge, Sparta, Paul Cartledge The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Karl Otfried Müller, translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, and George Cornewall Lewis, A.M., publisher: John Murray, London, 2nd ed.
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