User blog comment:KevlarNinja/Spartan vs. Roman Centurion/@comment-3354681-20110205022340/@comment-2136224-20110205141332

True. I mean, the spartans were only feed a thin brouth so there bodys could get more energy without useing up a ton of resorces. A good Spartan student would lie,steal, start fights, bring weapons to school, all the kind of stuff that would get you kicked out of school today. If you were found stealing you would be punished......beacause you let youself get discovered. Girls were trained in wrestling and Javelin throwing, so they could give birth to strong boys and (get this), to teach them not to be vain and focused on how they looked, girls would strip naked (that's right, NAKED) at temple services. Weak-looking babies were left in the woods or on a mountain top to die. And finally, after years of training, a Spartan could only become a Hopalite if he joined a dinner club with the men in his Phalanx so he would learn to trust his fellow soldiers.