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Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

When did the Spartans start military training?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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FIGHT SCHOOL<\/strong> Spartan warriors underwent gruelling training from childhood \u2013 with beatings meted out on the boys deemed the weakest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

When Sparta expected their men to give everything to the army, they meant their sons too<\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

The Spartans wouldn\u2019t have got where they did if they hadn\u2019t started training and preparing their warriors at a young age. At just seven years old, all Spartan boys were taken from their parents and thrown into the unforgiving, state-sponsored education system called agoge. Its goals were to instil in every future soldier the principles that Sparta held absolute: loyalty, discipline, strength and endurance \u2013 and it used brutal methods to achieve them.<\/p>\n\n

The boys would be barefoot with only one cloak all year round; they made their own beds out of reeds from the river; and they were encouraged to steal food and fight each other to survive. Inspections were frequent, with those not deemed strong enough being flogged.<\/p>\n\n

Agoge <\/em>lasted until a Spartan man turned 30, at which time he could start his own family, but never forget that his devotion was always, and above all things, to the state.<\/p>\n\n

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7<\/span> <\/h4>\n\n

The number of thumbs belonging to a bride and groom at a wedding on 14 February 1784 in Derby. The groom had four and the bride had three.<\/p>\n\n

PICTURE CREDIT: ALAMY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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