So Spartan women were really something else and there they are.

因此斯巴达女性决不仅仅是女人
But if you take the whole picture, what is it?

但如果从整体来看这是怎样的情形呢
It is, as I say, the degradation of the family in favor

正如我所说在希腊
of the importance of the polis as a whole, its needs, and its structure.

家庭远不如作为整体的城邦重要
It is a warrior ethic,

这就是勇士精神
it is based upon the principle of the hoplite phalanx

它基于重装步兵方阵的要求
and I want to read to you a piece of poetry

我想念一首诗
written by this Spartan poet, Tyrtaeus,

由斯巴达诗人提尔泰奥斯所作
who is dated somewhere in the seventh century

他生活在公元前7世纪
that gets at a number of the topics I've been talking about so far.

诗歌涉及很多我所讲过的问题
Here's how it goes:

诗中写道
"I would not say anything for a man,

男人毋须讴歌