Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Spartan men (and women) were encouraged from an early age to develop a very specific style of humor--short, punchy quips, often with a dark fatalistic bite. In today's episode we'll examine two examples, both true-historical and both from Thermopylae. Let's see if we can figure out why this style of humor perfectly fit warriors about to undergo a trial of death.

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