Sparta was a great and very powerful city-state in ancient Greece. Sparta emerged to be the biggest military force in Greece in 650 BC. Naturally Sparta was chosen to lead the Greek allied army against the Persian forces that came to conquer Greece in 480.
Sparta’s system was original and unique. It focused on strict military training of the males and to strive for excellence. Spartiates were the citizens and soldiers. Mothakes were non-Spartan residents born and raised as Spartans,. Perioikoi were free men living out of the city and live as farmers to feed the Spartans and themselves. Helots were considered as the lowest casts, the servants who were property of the state, non-Spartans either enslaved locals or prisoners of war.
Boys would be trained in battle, stealth, loyalty, tolerance, hunting and even dancing and singing through the Agoge from early childhood. The Agoge was very tough. The boys were also trained in tolerating not only pain but hunger. They were given only one clothing per year, a red cloak. At the age of 18, the elite boys were becoming the army’s reserve.
The syssition was a dish of black soup. It contained pork, the pork’s blood and vinegar, boiled. morphsuits It was awful they say but good enough to stay alive. The honeymoon or month of honey before the training completes was a task, a challenge in which the boys had to servive one month only by eating honey. They had to speak to the point-Lakonizein they call this. Any male that failed to pass the Agoge was excluded and he would never get his citizenship.

So if you come to Greece and you need a car to visit Sparta, the car rental companies here are Hertz, Sixt, Europcar, Autoeurope.