Word: sparta
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...young wife and mother who in losing Hector must lose all-Penelope loyal under hard trial to her long absent lord; the Helen of the Iliad, remorseful, clearsighted, keenly sensitive of any kindness shown her at Troy; the Helen of the Odyssey, restored to honor at her home at Sparta; the maiden Nausicaa, so beautiful in the dawning promise of a noble womanhood-perfect in her delicacy, her grace, her general courage...
...write. On the other, our secondary instruction is too aristocratic. It should only be the privilege of a small number, and not the common rule for all. Moreover, this instruction draws too exclusively on antique sources. It presents us with the society of antiquity in its most flourishing condition. Sparta, Athens, Rome, are shown us as ideal republics. Now it is well known how false the ideas of antiquity were upon what is to-day the very foundation of modern society. It is known what account it made of personal liberty, property, work, etc. Yet once again...
...possible, in view of the ideas which then obtained, that we might have affected the antique, and formed our citizens in the mould of Sparta or of Rome, instead of making French citizens, imbued with the principles of modern civilization...