They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury ... Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers ...

They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury ... Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers ...