just as Plato and Aristotle

就像柏拉图和亚里士多德当年那样
were by certain things about the Spartan way of life

被斯巴达式的某些生活方式所震撼
that make them take it seriously and admire it.

进而对此推崇备至
Rousseau was a great admirer of Sparta for a variety of reasons.

卢梭就因为各种原因而对斯巴达极力推崇
But one of the things that

但其中有一个问题
I don't want you to lose sight of is that

我希望你们不要忽视
Sparta becomes a slave holding state

那就是斯巴达是一个蓄养奴隶的城邦
like no other Greek state.

这点和其他希腊城邦截然不同
Now, there was slavery all over the ancient world.

在古代世界中奴隶制度比比皆是
There was no society that we know of in the ancient world

我们所知的古代社会
that was without slavery and Greece was no different,

几乎没有不蓄奴的古希腊也不例外
but in the period we're talking about

但在我们所讨论的这个时期