You know you are a insert appropriate descriptor when you spend the evening bopping between two PBS stations, one featuring a bio of Thomas Jefferson and the other a history of Sparta. Remarkably, the two pieces shared an surprising commonality: the vision of an ideal government. The program did not make Sparta's utopia particularly endearing, but did show its undeniable merits and uniqueness among political entities in the eastern Mediterranean.
Posted at August 7, 2003 04:06 PMAIGH!!! There was a Sparta documentary? And I missed it?
I suppose that's what I get for not getting around to plugging the tv back in after getting back from vacation two months ago. But I really need to watch that.
---L.
Posted by: LNH on August 8, 2003 11:29 AMWell, any PBS documentary in receipt of much publicity is sure to be rebroadcast, especially during pledge drives.
Which reminds me, I need to revisit Herodotus and Thucydides in toto. And get a copy of Montaigne's essays. Argh. Too many books and too little time.
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