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Originally Posted by mikesinner
When children where born they where inspected by a group that was responsible for picking youths that would grow up to become warriors. It sounds cruel but those that had birth defects or where considered scrawny where thrown over a cliff. Today there have been found thousands of small skeletons under a mountainside. Some mother would hide their newborn children because of this.
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My father is Spartan and I have seen this actual cliff. I don't know if you've ever been to Sparta Mike, but if you haven't you should take a trip there sometime. Don't just go to the tourist sites, but travel around the countryside. Seeing the terrain will give you a greater appreciation of why the Spartans were who they were. To this day men from Sparta are some of the toughest in all of Greece.
I can't wait to see this movie either
