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   Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 05:33:50 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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   @BarelyEagle The three hundred were selected with one simple requirement: each had to have sired at least one male child
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     dubbub :windmill_of_friendship: ☦️ (dubbub@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 05:33:50 JST dubbub :windmill_of_friendship: ☦️

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     @TrevorGoodchild @BarelyEagle AFAIK the 300 were the royal guard (Hippies) and were unmarried and childless:
     
     >A picked corps of the hoplites, specially employed as a royal body-guard, were those known as hippeis (horsemen) composed of 300 Spartans under thirty years of age, ...
     >Spartan men were not allowed to live with their wives until age 30. Spartan society didn't discourage romantic love, but marriage and childrearing were both subject to some peculiar cultural and governmental constraints. The state counseled that men should marry at age 30 and women at 20.
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 05:33:50 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     • dubbub :windmill_of_friendship: ☦️
     @dubbub @BarelyEagle No.
     
     Leonidas knew he was going to his death and selected only Spartan men with male children to accompany him. Herodotus is clear on this
     
     "He then at this time went to Thermopylae, having chosen the three hundred who were appointed by law and men who chanced to have sons"
     
     livius.org/sources/content/herodotus/herodotus-on-thermopylae/
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     BarelyEagle (barelyeagle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 05:33:51 JST BarelyEagle
     Love is the opposite of fear.
     
     RT: https://poa.st/objects/95c635b6-ec5a-4e84-a885-3a9e7dbed73c