Okay, so this has been bugging me for a while. Basically, ancient Sparta was a fucked up, totalitarian police state, giving the Nazis a run for their money in terms of badness. They fucking killed babies! And yet, despite all this, we glorify them in movies like 300. Your challenge is, with a POD after the Renaissance, to make people talk about Sparta in the same manner we talk about Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.