The Spartan Creed Analysis

Documents can tell you any number of things about different civilizations. In the case of “The Spartan Creed” it tells you how the Spartans valued war. War was meant to be a great honor to men. War is when a man would prove himself and no matter their rank or age no one could dis honor their feat. In “The Spartan Creed” it says this in a number of ways one being “I would not say anything for a man nor take account of him…. unless he can endure to face the blood and the slaughter” (Brophy, 85). This says that you wouldn’t recognize a man unless he endured war in short. In “The Spartan Creed it goes on to say that the courage in war is a everlasting feat “Aging, he has reputation among his citizens. No one tries to interfere with his honors or all he deserves” (Brophy, 86). In a separate reading about the Spartans it gives a list of laws that would create a better soldier. The laws were all designed so that their love of war would stay with them. The laws start off with how you can raise your children. It gives a guide to many things “With regard, for example, to the procreation of children, that I may begin from the beginning” (Brophy, 86). This shows that they start thinking about a strong …show more content…
In this case the document “The Spartan Creed” is written as a poem. You can tell this is a poem by the structure of the writing and the word choices. A poem document can help the understanding of the more personal side of a culture. Unlike a document such as a ledger the poem gives you the thoughts and feelings of a certain culture without the hindrance of actual information that is happening. But for that reason a poem isn’t the best kind of document for factual information because it doesn’t give you every fact and gives you more of the personal side of the situation. This could also mislead us because the personal side might not be what is actually happening in that area at that