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Join the roomSparta é uma banda de rock americana de El Paso, Texas, formada em 2001. A banda atualmente consiste em Jim Ward, Matt Miller (baixo) e o baterista Neil Hennessy. Os membros fundadores Ward, Paul Hinojos e Tony Hajjar eram membros do grupo pós-hardcore At the Drive-In, formando Sparta em 2001 após a separação de sua antiga banda. A banda entrou em hiato em 2008 para Ward focar em sua carreira solo e projetos paralelos, reunindo-se de 2011 a 2013 para uma série de shows e reunindo-se permanentemente em 2017. A banda lançou seis álbuns de estúdio até o momento; o quarto deles, Trust the River, foi lançado em 2020 após um intervalo de 14 anos entre lançamentos. Seu álbum mais recente, Cut a Silhouette, foi lançado em maio de 2026.
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“Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.”
“It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women who bring forth men'.”
“Their [Lacadaemonian] women, it is said, were bold and masculine, overbearing to their husbands in the first place, absolute mistresses in their houses, giving their opinions about public matters freely, and speaking openly even on the most important subjects.”
“Through his doctrine of the similarity between Sparta and the perfect state, Plato became one of the most successful propagators of what I should like to call ‘the Great Myth of Sparta’—the perennial and influential myth of the supremacy of the Spartan constitution and way of life.”
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