Body Paragraph #1 (Document): o “…obedience to the magistrates and the laws is found in the highest degree in Sparta” (X.Lac.chapter8.section#3). This quote demonstrates the authoritarian nature of the Spartan culture.
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• Xenophon was an Athenian citizen (Gish and Ambler 2009, 181). Given the tension between Sparta and Athens, and the Athenian preference for Democracy, one would expect the bias to tilt towards Xenophon’s native polis of Athens. On the contrary, Xenophon writes quite a favourable account of Spartan daily and political life.
• Xenophon also wrote about Sparta in his accounts of the Peloponnesian Wars, through which he lived (Lazenby 2004,