Actually, from what I remember reading about the two cultures, the Athenians where about man-man love and the Spartans where the man-boy lovers,
And when people count the Spartans, they tend to focus on the 300 soldiers and completely forget the 900 support personnel they brought along; catering, hairdressers, etc. who died with them.
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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’ Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.
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