04-16-2008, 03:07 PM
Quote:The Spartans most certainly had a horsebreeding culture: the record at Olympia speaks to it. The king's guard, the hippies also harks back to horse breeding.
To add to this you might look at Greek names. Phillipos, Hippomedon, Xanthippos, Hippocrates, Hippolytos, Hippistratus, Kratippos, Xenippos, and others. There is a suprisinigly high incidence of horse oriented names if the horse were not important to them.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
