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Regular Library Day Thursday, April 25,2002
Check out and return books.
ANCIENT GREECE
A Spartan Reply
retold by Lous Untermeyer
(from Prentice Hall Literature
Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, Teaching Resources: Readings from
Social Studies)
Sparta was one of the great Greek city-states.
These cities were self-contained, with
their own governments.
Each had its own personality - Sparta
being known for its army and
its simple and disciplined style of
life.
King Phillip of Macedon,
father
of
Alexander
the Great, had won so many victories and had captured so much territory
that everyone expected him to invade Greece. This he planned to do,
but he hesitated because of the Spartans.
The Spartans lived
in that part of Greece known as Laconia. A brave and simple people,
utterly fearless, they were not given to boasting or vain talk. They
used few words and chose those words carefully; their sentences were so
short that they were called "laconic," a form of speech native to Laconia.
Philip at last decided
that he would wait no longer. Assembling a vast army, he brought
it to the borders of Laconia. Then he sent a message to the Spartans.
"When I invade your
country," he warned them. "If you do not yield at once, I will burn your
villages and destroy your cities. If I enter Laconia I will level
it to the ground."
The Spartans did not
waste words or time. Their answer came back immediately, a truly
laconic
reply. It consisted of a simple word.
The word was "IF!"
Macedon
country within ancient Greece
Alexander the Great
ruler who expanded his father's earlier conquests to rule a huge empire
in Greece, Persia, and briefly, India
laconic
brief, curt
yield
give way, surrender
THINK IT OVER:
1. What do you think the Spartans
were trying to say with their reply?
2. Today, a person who owns very
little is sometimes referred to as a spartan. What do you think this
means? Find out by clicking on Spartan.
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