Plutarch on how the Spartans showed drunken slaves to young men

They would often make the slaves drink wine until they were insensible, and lead them out in that state into public places, to show the young men what a hideous spectacle a man presents who has lost his reason to wine. They also made them dance indecent dances and sing vulgar songs, so that the children, seeing and hearing this, might conceive a still stronger hatred of such behaviour

Plutarch. Parallel Lives. Lycurgus

Painting by Laurent Jacquot-Defrance, “A Spartan Showing His Sons a Drunken Helot”

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

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Plutarch on how the Spartans showed drunken slaves to young men

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s