Kagan makes very important point in the first few minutes of the Sparta class:
Everything now in history that bears on the Western World and its relations with some other world is part of a great political assault by those people who are eager to pull down anything that seems to be admirable or special or positive about the West and to say it really was bad or to say it wasn't so terrific or it didn't exist.
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The sound on the audio isn't great, so maybe this is covered, but I'll take any opportunity to point out that the phalanx is mentioned in Homer, and that, while it's often associated with the growth of democracy in the Greek polis, the Greeks themselves closely associated the hoplite phalanx with tyrants.
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