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Were the Spartans actually strong people (physically)?

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The Spartiate class would have been generally fit. They trained a lot, which they had time to do because the helot slave population did all the agricultural work. read more

About the actual physical strength, they had to be insanelly strong. Considering the fact that Sparta was almost all the time fighting Athenians, who usually had more soldiers and thus having so important body mass, the Spartans had to be strong to hold and beat them. read more

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