‘Super-Sparta’ Is Bad History and Bad Strategy

The Spartan model didn’t work for Sparta. It will be even worse for Israel.

Italian re-enactors dressed as Greek hoplites perform the 490 B.C battle of Marathon at the Marathon Bay on September 10, 2011. September 23, 2025, 9:16 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

“We Jews are still here, but where are the ancient Greeks?”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked me, a classical historian, this question 10 years ago when we met at a national prize ceremony. A decade later, he seems to have found them.

“We Jews are still here, but where are the ancient Greeks?”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked me, a classical historian, this question 10 years ago when we met at a national prize ceremony. A decade later, he se

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