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It would be a very oddball position
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to take for the rest of Greek history.
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No, the right thing to do is to take care of yourself
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and the hell with the polis.
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That's not what you're going to hear.
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What you're going to hear is to the contrary.
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Little bit later, when we get to talking about Sparta,
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you'll see a beautiful example of
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that in the form of the poems of Tyrtaeus,
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who is a poet in Sparta, and whose poetry became
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so central to their way of thinking
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and living that they were used