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THE REPRESENTATIONS OF CLASSICAL ESPARTA IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES.
Authors: Luis Filipe B. de Assumpção
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Among many societies that existed in the vicinity of the Ancient Mediterranean, Sparta was one of the most impressed the ancient authors. However, due to its specificities, the spartan polis was represented in different ways which emphasized, on the one hand, how its citizens valued the ancestral tradition and, the other hand, an idea of society based on excesses and overly combative. Thus, this work aims to highlight as the representations of Sparta that, based upon too-sedimented ways of thinking in the major part of the Western world, were resulted from a specific historical context, whose in-depth analysis may provide us evidences upon the modern motivations related to dysphorization of the spartans values of Antiquity. This paradigm is present in the history textbooks of the Brazilian education system.