r/comics • u/EmployeePractical514 • 15h ago

OC [OC] Same thing?

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u/B-Z_B-S 15h ago

Relevant comic:

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u/Dion-is-us 15h ago

Somehow as a society we always circle back and create Spartans.

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u/AwayCable7769 14h ago

Random but one of my favourite historical fun facts is that the Romans loved the Spartans so much that aristocratic Roman families would send their children to Sparta to learn their ways purely for educational and recreational purposes, not for any practical reasons. Sparta and the Spartans at ine point in Roman history was essentially a living museum and tourist attraction.

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u/Azmoten 14h ago

Spartans had slaves and beat their kids so it was probably not the greatest summer camp experience

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u/Asleep_Tip496 13h ago

Your acting like romans did not have slaves or beat their kids

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u/MaraiaLou 12h ago

That's probably what they liked the most about Sparta

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u/BreadNoCircuses 11h ago

I mean, my understanding is that you have to pay attention to your kids to beat them so maybe the Romans didn't actually do that.

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u/Asleep_Tip496 11h ago

Fair point to probibly had a slave to do that for them

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u/sexual_lemonade 13h ago

Hello Muddah, hello Faddah.

Here I am at Camp Granada Romana.

Camp is very entertaining.

And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining they stop the beating

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u/guitar_vigilante 4h ago

Athens was basically a tourist attraction at the time too. It was probably the number one reason it was so well preserved and even had Roman Emperors putting money into building projects in the city. They loved it for much of the same reason people visit Athens today.

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u/AwayCable7769 4h ago

Awesome, didn't jnow that haha thanks :) It is brilliant how little we have ultimately changed as a society and collective culture across thousands of years really. The same things stood. Aesthetics. "Memes" or other humour. People act like we are so far gone from our roots, but what exactly are our roots in this kind of discussion??

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u/Dark-Specter 14h ago

The simplest lifeform

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u/Perryn 7h ago

Something about coming on their shields. I don't know, I'm not a historian.

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u/BiggerNickEnergy 8h ago

There is no evidance that spartans had sex besides athenian propaganda

Don't bealive athenian propaganda

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u/UnknownKaddath 3m ago

Nah this time they can't fight for shit and they're really fucking dumb.