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and fight off Spartan attacks for quite a long time.
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Remember,
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the Spartans are hampered in this war by having to cope
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with neighboring cities battling them as well.
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By the time that is over,
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you move towards the ultimate arrangement of life
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in the Sparta that we will come to know.
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One set of scholars, they probably are as numerous as any,
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would suggest that it's only after the second Mycenaean War
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that the Spartan constitution
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that I will describe for you comes into being.
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Probably we shouldn't even