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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
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as marching songs for the Spartan army as they walked,
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and they make the same point, but I'll come back to that.
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Now, here's another document that you want to be aware of
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that gives you some idea of what the Greeks
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fairly early thought the polis was for and about,
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and what the relationship between individual and polis was.
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In this case I'm talking about Herodotus,