Why Life of a Spartan Warrior Actually Sucked
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- Spartans had their claim to fame in the movie "300" where Leonidas gloriously shouts "This is Sparta!" but the actual life of a Spartan warrior was anything but glamorous. Check out today's epic new video that goes back in time to see why Spartan's lives actually sucked!
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There's a reason why old men were revered in Spartan society. Their men rarely lived to see old age so an old spartan was probably a beast in a fight.
Except life expectancy on the Ancient Greek battlefield was far higher than most. For one the troops were Heavily armored thru the 4th century. To the extent it would not be seen again until the Roman Empire around 27BC.
Bronze armor was as effective at protection as iron. It fell out of favor because a mine collapsed and it could not be repaired when damaged.
The Hoplite fighting style when fighting other Hoplites resorted to pushing matches and discipline of drill. At this the Spartans were experts. They had the only real standing military that only focused on the military for a very long period of time.
When fighting against other nations Greek Hoplite warefare was vastly superior as Hoplites were Heavily armored and protected, fought predominantly with the Dori a 6-8ft spear, and fought in tight formations. This produced very high casualties to other nations as they were no where near as armored or had weapons that could easily defeat Hoplite armor and fighting.
Definitely someone I wouldn't want to get in a hand to and fight with.
That's what people might have liked to believe, when in reality, they just might have not fought on the front lines.
It's almost the exact opposite when it comes to the Norse. You want to die in the shield wall with your brethren and see Valhalla
As one Athenian once said: "Once I tasted their cuisine, I could no longer wonder, why they would rather die in war."
“Internet users always attribute quotes to me I never said” - That same Athenian
@@h.t.awesome3822 “internet users always attribute quotes to me i never said” - that same athenian
If it's the story I've heard before, it was a rich Greek from Magna Grecia (Megas Hellas), in Southern Italy.
In Asterix comics there is a saying "More disgusting is the food, more powerful is the army, as disgusting food makes the Roman soldier always angry so more performing in battle"
The guy who said it was not Athenian but from Sybaris, South Italy, a Greek city renowned for its luxurious lifestyle. They went on to war against Croton and the Crotoniates butchered them, then besieged them, burnt their city and sold women and children to slavery. Athenians were in fact quite very keen on training as well.
Spartan girls were also put through a lighter version of the Agoge where they had to undergo intense physical training and exercise. Their health and fitness was as much of a priority to the state as it was for the men, because it was believed that healthy women would produce healthy sons, and be able to handle the burdens of childbirth better. In fact for women in Sparta, giving birth was treated like fighting in battle as the only Spartans who were given a marker over their graves were men who died in battle and women who died in childbirth.
Or women who bore sons
@@demarcusfaulkner7411 Source ?
Yes. Persian women had it better than women in Athens OR Sparta- Persian women sometimes led armies, had the same jobs, the same pay, were paid more after a pregnancy, could choose their own husbands.
@@bvllseye4068 professor Charles Ingram my sophomore history teacher at Ole Miss.
@@demarcusfaulkner7411 Let's have a round of applause for Professor Charles Ingram!
Being banished from Sparta seems less like a punishment and more like a reward/blessing
Ikr 💀
@@alal2192 lol💀
True
A reason to get fat in Sparta.
Haha, problem is if you didn't have any wealth, exile could very well be a death sentence. It wasn't always as easy as simply joining another city/state, and as you can imagine it was very dangerous in the wild
There’s a reason why they were such fearsome fighters, they were basically not permitted to do anything, besides train, or fight. No distractions
Hi
This is baby abuse
@@Tuturial464 THIS IS SPARTA!!
@@Tuturial464 this is a different era
You forgot that they were allowed to make more babies lol
“From the time he could stand, he was baptized in the fire of combat. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender, but death on the battlefield in service to Sparta was the greatest glory he could achieve in his life.” - Dilios, 300
Yes. Like what Japanese soldiers were told during World War 2. 😟😟😟
My name is teleport
We need to bring Spartan regime back for men!
No. The newly wedded bride had her head shaven to symbolically shed her life as a girl, along with her girl hair, and then grow new hair as a wife. She had no clothes because her husband had to give her new clothes, as the clothes of her life as a girl was now shed as she readied herself for her life as a wife.
Getting your head shaved and given new clothes is worst then being yanked from your family at a young age and abused for years?
@@smokedfuckinsausages9257 He wasn't saying it is worse he is just saying why it happened.
Probably that as well but cmon
@@smokedfuckinsausages9257 is that a rethorical question?
"High-fives for the women and open-mouthed tongue kisses for the men."
-Leonidas
One unique thing about Spartan marriages was that in Sparta adultery was not only permissible but was also encouraged. In fact it wasn't uncommon for some Spartan men to not feel they had good enough genes to produce strong or fit children, would invite younger men from their barracks to sleep with their wives. In other words the Spartans were practicing a form of eugenics long before it became a thing in the 19th century.
In other words,eugenic cucceree
It was probably BS anyway. Physical fitness is not even that important in the ancient military, drilling and discipline are far more important. If that story is true, this kind of open marriage situation was probably caused for different reasons
Ah i can smell the spartan cologne from 2022
Not only that but the Spartan men would get, eh, "close" to the Spartan boys 😏
Raising someone else's child as your own is hardly the same as artificially manipulating genes at the cellular/molecular level.
“A spartan warrior never lets his back hit the ground, right brother?”
- Deimos
8:50 bro the subtle humor on this channel is top notch. Way to entertain AND educate.
Fighting Spartans on a battlefield would have been like fighting professional MMA fighters in a classroom brawl.
nah 10xtimes harder
Yet the Romans would have destroyed them with superior tactics. Sparta makes me admire the Romans in comparison.
I love these videos! Can you make one about Samurais?
I love your videos! 😁 You always bring entertainment to the bored me. MASS RESPECT
Ah the good old days when emotional abuse would build character in children... and turn them into psychopathic adults just like the Gods wanted
Gotta be crazy in a world equally as crazy, a world where you could die at literally any second.
@@barnacleboi2595 It sounds like a Monday to me 🙂
They should have been PC lgbtq but they didn't have an email to receive the future memo of our safe space paradise -
@@hismastersvoice4184 oh they were lgbtq alright lol
The Spartans were the closest incarnation of actual Saiyans then any other time in human history.
As a Navy guy that had aspirations of becoming a Seal;
I'd gladly bow out of this life.
Yet they still died off.
@@MetaKnight964 just like saiyans
@@MetaKnight964 Everything and Everyone dies. The greatest warriors, the smartest scholars, the richest merchants and the greatest civilizations. The one thing we all have in common is the long dark
@@MetaKnight964 theres a nice video out there explaining how the spartan empire became assimilated into Rome...
Did you become a seal
Spartans most likely same as professional soldiers, they had been created only for war and battles, so the community need to fully support them, and that is why they need to be very qualify selected.
They were perfect muscled war machines. Bring Spartan regime back for men!
@@Fat-Queen1 💯
I wish you would bring back the "I am..." storys . (Like vlad the impaler, plague doctor ...)
Ah, you mean I Am?
@@brandonfremer6367 yes. Thank you. I forgot how it was called
who "you" there are like 20 people working on this videos if not more.
@@lucaskp16 you as in the team as a whole, the you that is conglomerate identity that is the channel itself and the people that work within
I agree! This video would be so much more brutal through the eyes of a Spartan ingant/boy/man.
It’s almost like Sparta was its own separate country. It just happened to be inside Greece.
Weren't all the Greek cities it's own separate countries? It was tribalism no? Which is why the Roman's where able to conquer the Greeks.
@@albertbecerra It like seems like there was Greece and Greek society, and then Sparta was off doing its own thing.
@@phantommangagirl oh I see, you mean like these Greeks had their standards of living and did what the norm was for them, meanwhile Spartans are......sacking everything 😆. Yeah I see your point
@@phantommangagirl That's partially because what we think of as "Greek society" is mainly Athens, Sparta's rival. Sparta did participate in the rest of Greek Society (they won the Persian Wars), and they were able to collect enough allies to form the Peloponnesian League that defeated Athens. Their culture definitely was somewhat different from the rest of Greece though.
@@albertbecerra
they sacked very little
Spartiates were so rare that in times of war in the later era's Sparta would only send a handful of the homoioi with an insane number of helots
Sparta won a series of wars, and became a full on empire. But their number of Spartans became less. They couldn’t replace losses fast enough, but they kept going to war.
3:46 you just summed up my childhood... Including the hunger games lol.
i love the infographics show :)
Joke of the day:
Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Because he was very outstanding in his field
Lol! 🤣 I get it!
Uhhh .. I'll laugh later
@@low-keyrighteous9575 Don't bother
@@iamtwone3 why was six afraid of seven ? Because seven eight nine ....
@@low-keyrighteous9575 So funny I forgot to laugh
Despite all these terrible things about the reality of Spartan life, part of me years for that experience of being a true ancient warrior even if it means killing and dying
John, you are a real man.. wish more were like you
This video has a lot of good and interesting information in it
Woah thanks so much Infographics Show I was going to be a Spartan warrior this summer and this video saved me
Brides shaving their heads obviously had to do with cultural practices and it could have signified her new life or role. Orthodox Jewish women shave their head after they get married too.
to show they have an owner?
@@lucaskp16 🤔
@@lucaskp16 I mean yeah. That's what marriage is. It's a very Kantian thing to say but it's how it should be.
@@lucifer2b666 That doesn't make sense. How would shaving your head mean that. Anyway, that's messed up in itself.
Well,this was the Bronze Age,with predatory Imperial powers that wanted to enslave you,and being Sparta was a small City state,Creating a Warrior Cast Of Super-Soldiers to defend you probably made absolute sense..
Those struggles created the most recognized warriors in human history
Can we please have a round of applause for the Infographics Show researchers?
" You want our weapons ? Then , tell Xerxes to COME AND GET THEM " .
They had guns in Ancient times??
Eh ... NO , obviously . Gunpowder was first invented by the Chinese eons afterwards . When we talk about ancient weapons we mean ; Swords , spears , shields , axes , helmets , breastplates etc .
... "Except the Spartans almost never moved in slow motion..." That's a like right there 😂👍💪
Why
@@hannahlarocco4699 it's a quote from this episode. It made me laugh 😁👍
@@hannahlarocco4699 It's a cheeky reference to 300
"Almost"
Thanks!
do you guys retell stories that you already put out in different ways I appreciate all the content you guys are one of my favorite channels but just wondering
ive seen some things before in some vids :)
I kinda think we need a little more of this. Maybe not the killing of needy baby's, or teaching our kids to beat each other, but we should be teaching the importance of being physically strong and capable, as well as strong of will. No matter what you want to do in life, you will do it better if your healthy and intelligent and self sufficient.
It’s spelled *you’re, and it seems like you’re the one that needs more intelligence.
🤓@@Kirsten_is_cursed10
bring back Spartan regime for men!
No doubt why they won almost every war they fought. Built different
This is for Sparta ‼️
wait till they see how my grandparents went to school
There is no tactical retreat in sparta
I’m learning about this in school.
When caught stealing the thief was flogged for being caught, not for the attempted theft.
"It's your birthday? Let's go to war!"
🎶go go go go shorty
You can find me with a club....
Got told by my bub to come back with my sheild and she'll give me love....
When i pull up with my chariot at the front i see Archimedes on dub
Mama I got that sword i aint to giving hugs
So come here if you wanna battle i aint into giving love
Royal marines vs USMC video? pls :)
Broo! I heard your voice in an advertisement!
Sparta knew how to create killing machines.
Musclebound war machines who went to battle in leather thongs. We need to bring back spartan regime for men again!
What about how they would engage with each other because you’d be more likely to protect someone that you loved or cared for.
That was the Sacred Band of Thebes.
You'd think such an army would be absolutely unbeatable in the field. But the truth is Spartans could be beaten and were beaten in battle. At least twice the Greeks bested them in war, mainly because there weren't enough Spartans to go around and numbers ultimately, almost always triumph.
@Cop Anders
Pfft, Philipp of macedon thought it not woth the effort to crush tjem finally.
spartans were by no means military superior in battle
more than twice the thebans alone delivered at least 3 crushing defeats on them
and most spartan soldiers were helots, periokai etc not homoioi
Thats why due to their numbers, they were trained to be musclebound bodybuilders. Bring Spartan regime back for men!
Life as a Spartan Warrior is nothing but Gladiator fights and training 24/7.
For that reason they gone to war with happiness Like a break
That's completely wrong. They read poetry and played music, they went to hunting, and had many other activities. They weren't really more fit than other Greeks. They had better discipline because none of them had real jobs, so they could drill more.
very little time was spend on that
Bring back Spartan regime for men!
Looks like he is giving Leonidas a handy in the first 10 sec 😂
Great, now I’m in the mood to watch 300.
Nice vedio
Only the strong survive 💪🏽
The background music is always too loud :(
I mean we assume it was horrible, but to them and their time they had "advanced technology" for there time, we just think it would be awful because we grew up in this time 100 years from now people will look back at our time and say how rough it was
Exactly. They didn't know any different so I bet for them it was an honor to be a Spartan 🤷♀️
@@sisu4134 what is curious to the fly is normal to the spider
@@sisu4134
yes exactly the reason , the helotes refused to be freed
BABY : exsists
Sparta : KNOCK KNOCK ITS SPARTA
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New study says that people lived until about 70, the average.
Does this guy have a problem with Sparta?
"... stop it. Get some help."
- 🐐
I love the fact it’s destroy or be destroyed
It was a brutal world
Haha the myth of throwing babies off a cliff is untrue, they left them to starve to death.
Well, of course they wouldn't throw them off a cliff. they're not savages. Obviously, they conducted their infanticides in a much more dignified manner. lol
@Kyle Pagayon haha ya
He mentions that a like 5 seconds after mentioning the the cliff story.
The baby's were'nt inspected or thrown of a cliff like some say, this is just a myth created by an enemy of the spartans, an Athener (Sorry I don't know the english version of a person from Athens). As you correctly said
Athenian 😁
300 made people think Spartans were better than they were.
@Dioko mad American hahahahahaha
Sounds like the ideal society.
Agreed! Bring back Spartan regime for men!
Sick
As a Greek person I am disappointed in this video but I understand it’s a opinion & a point of view. I just personally disagree.
A lot of exaggeration and a good amount of just plain wrong info here.
@@Tlyna1952 Right couldn’t agree more!
Can you please tell us what were the wrong info? I want to learn something new.
>a greek still being salty about spartans thousands of years after spartans are long gone
>somewhere in spartan heaven, a spartan still chuckles
people are a product of their time.
So- I take it, there was no Metoo movement in ancient Sparta???
Well we can’t really judge them that much as we don’t know what life was fully like as Spartans couldn’t write about it
OK this might be a strange thing to ask but I was actually talking to my parents the other day about different countries foods and it made me realize that Japan and China mostly seem to use seafood and rice as far as I know the dishes while Italian food uses a lot of pasta and sauces for a good majority of their foods so here’s my question and please answer this one what food item does each country use the most because for me I live in the United States and I feel like we use beef more than anything but that’s just because I see you like a lot of steakhouse in town there’s like five different ones a few miles from where I live
You make the most of what you have the most available of.
Yeah I know that but I’m wondering about all the countries
@@sirnight6438 You're absolutely right. However, I think that Americans also eat A LOT of chickens.
Being a Spartan can sometimes be the worst decision you'll ever make in your life. Sometimes you'll have to become a Spartan whether you like it or not.
They had no choice, if you were born a boy in Sparta, you're a Spartan.
@@Fat-Queen1 the Agoge, the people in charge of training the Spartans, was meant to be cruel and intense. Their elders would beat the child until they can no longer stand. They would march back to camp at night or become food for wolves. They would fight for scraps or starve.
@@princeofpokemon2934 Yes! They spent every single day being trained brutally and bodybuilding, this went on for 14 years until they reached the age of 21. By the time they left the agoge they were musclemen!
@@princeofpokemon2934 They also went to war in leather thongs! mmmm
@@Fat-Queen1 that's something I cannot unsee
reminds me of assassin creed odyssey
*Still here early waiting for the like*
FRFR IM TIRED AT THIS POINT UMMA STOP ASKING FROM NOW ON
Funny how most of those who wanted to live in ancient sparta would be helots.
Those were conscripted men
As a greek its not agoge is more like agogi with more focus on the "gi"
"This is Spartaaaaaaaaaaaa"
They are men of focus and sheer determination from birth.
Bring back Spartan regime for men!
During the Peloponnesion War Thucydides records that the Spartan citizen body was starting to question if sending the Spartan kings out as dignitaries was still an effective idea after 2 kings became corrupt and brought shame to Sparta. This was due to the very austere life that Spartans had that they would quickly abandon for the decadence that foreign city states would shower on high ranking individuals. When a city state as serious as Sparta was about their laws was willing to change policy after centuries of status que you know how serious the moral decline of Spartans leaving Sparta was and how incompatible the life of Spartans vs non-Spartans was.
well yes the grindset is hard
This is Sparta aaaaaahhhhhhhh
One of my favorite parts of the movie is when Michael Fassbender's character would shout "This is Sparta!" so much that even the other Spartans started to get annoyed.
Mine is the dance battle.
his character was kind of unsettling idk
Greatness!
How?
5:12,
Yeah, Imagine IF "body shaming" became institutionalized. Imagine how much lower health insurance premiums would be for Everyone!
But there would be no real savings because the psychological impact of relentless Body Shaming would cause depression and other mental health problems.
Uhhh this might have been stated before but at the very start of the video for the first 12 seconds, you sure you want your cartoon guy "pointing" at the theater screen RIGHT THERE?
Real men !
Lol you realize those "real" men were sleeping with other men haha
Sometimes it takes a man to "'take it like a man"
agreed! Bring back Spartan regime for men.
Worst part yet, their life expectancy is really bad nowadays. I hear that they're all pretty much dead at this point... so I guess that their healthcare plans were horrendous. 😔
Pretty Cool
Of Course You would think it was Atrocious! You Would’ve been a Poet or Something! To be a Warrior Back in B.C. times, meant to be 1 foot away from Screaming Dying men, covered in BLOOD AND EXCREMENT!! You HAD to be Hardened!! If One Man Broke The Phalanx Fails!! Sure there where different less Brutal Ways to teach war! But there is NO WAY to Simulate Combat!! 3 Deployment Veteran of 2 wars! (Iraq/Afghanistan)! I COULD Never Imagine Fighting hand to hand in a Phalanx! So how about a Little Understanding of the Times in which People Lived! Because back then if you Lost! Your Entire Civilization was Wiped Away!! See Carthage, Thebes, or the Thousands of Other Examples!!
Touch grass
hundreds of thousands of men if not millions did that in a phalanx , shieldwall without homoioi upbringing.
most spartans who fought in the phalanx lacked that also.
and the homoioi were not a superior military aristocracy
you mean like the persians and medes did with babylon, milet etc.
phew thank god i saw this video, i was considering becoming a spartan soldier
😂
I admire your commitment
You are too soft.
And don’t forget how they fight the Covenant all the time. At least they have MJOLNIR armor to take those aliens down.
If they were expected to serve in the army until age 60, this suggests that they had a longer life expectancy than some people at this time?
It was, kinda, not that unusual age among the Greeks. They were most advanced civilization by that time, almost anywhere else, things was even more horrible.
@@user-vw4bn4ne6d 👌
Yeha this is what I expected their lives were like. If u watch 300 you probably won't walk away thinking Spartans had a nice life by any means none of this was surprising.
No archer hoplites?
Makes you think of what their emotional state should be like after being abused and picked on for decades and told to bury their emotions. Personally, someone like kratos is just the most emotionally resilient person I have ever met along with the fact He's no longer in Sparta anymore He's in Scandinavia And Those nightmares are about his family. They were accidentally murdered by the fault of Aries and his own despite being warned and he was promised to be rid of them but That never happened If they did that then they could have avoided all the stuff and nonsense
What about the night mares of past he was suffering from
bring back Spartan regime for men!
0:20 Why didnt the "reluctant rearchers" take back crates of AK-47s / ammo / grenades and RPG's?
it wasn't so much they didn't encourage spirit of camaraderie instead it was more a trail. Once you completed it you earned your right into the brotherhood of spartan soldiers and nobody would make fun of you ever again unless they had a death wish probably. If you can make it through the lowest a person back then can get to and all the other abuse, fighting, etc. and still make it out the other side it was something you could take pride in as well.
The sass and salt in his voice xd
And I thought "HORRIBLE HISTORIES" is just exaggerating facts.
at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffet.
You sir are the hero we need but do not deserve
Mmm 😋 cyanide corn dogs
I’d love ya for it and take one even faster if I saw a fellow patron sharing something from home! My gf would flip out and tell management(she’s not a ‘Karen’ btw, but she works in food safety)
Post traumatic stress by the ripe old age of 37.......Hours.
Sounds like a system we need in place now.
🤨📸
Can agree. Even the Austrian Painter agrees.
Bring back Spartan regime for men!