This is a teaser of the bonus episode, Lycurgus, Spartan Lawgiver, found over on Patreon.

Plutarch would say of Lycurgus;

"Concerning Lycurgus the lawgiver, in general, nothing can be said which is not disputed, since indeed there are different accounts of his birth, his travels, his death, and above all, of his work as lawmaker and statesman"

He would then follow up with;

"...although the history of these times is such a maze, I shall try, in presenting my narrative, to follow those authors who are least contradicted, or who have the most notable witnesses for what they have written about the man."

It is with Plutarch that we lean very heavily on to draw out the reported life of Lycurgus and how he would come to introduce many of the laws and institutions within Sparta that made them so famous in the pages of history. Though, we also look to the notion that his historicity may not be as what it seems, with there being perhaps a closer connection to Delphi and the god Apollo.

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