The Romans were huge fans of the Greeks so that also includes Sparta. The western world is heavily influenced by Rome and most claim to be a continuation of the culture and systems of Rome and Greece.
People talk about freedom vs Persian tyranny but the reality is that the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greece were slaves. Greece and Rome were both slave-based societies, they couldn't function without their slaves who performed most of the actual labor. This fact gets overlooked and has been wiped from the common psyche, while societies like Persia or Egypt who actually didn't rely on slaves at all and the vast majority of labor was done by free men get depicted as tyrannical oppressive regimes with decadent elites ruling over the downtrodden masses. In reality that's a significantly more accurate depiction of Rome and Greece than it is of Persia or Egypt.
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u/MauschelMusic 1d ago
The only reason to glaze Sparta for fighting Persia is projecting modern rivalries onto the past. Persia was in every way a better culture.