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* NoWomansLand: Averted, as the novel points out that despite its grotesquely brutal caste system, Sparta was one of the most egalitarian classical Greek states in its treatment of women--at least, the rich and upper-class women. Helot women, who made up the majority of the female population, were treated as badly as female slaves were everywhere else.
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* NoWomansLand: Averted, as the Double-subverted. The novel points out that despite its grotesquely brutal caste system, Sparta was one of the most egalitarian classical Greek states in its treatment of women--at least, the rich and upper-class women. Helot women, who made up the majority of the female population, were treated as badly as female slaves were everywhere else.
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* CampStraight: Terpander acts effeminate and wimpy, especially in comparison to the more grizzled Klaros, but boasts in the beginning about how his tongue has [[UnusualEuphemism "performed"]] before many high-class women. [[ShownTheirWork In Greece at the time the story is set, performing oral sex on a woman was actually seen as more effeminate than homosexuality.]]
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* CampStraight: Terpander acts effeminate and wimpy, especially in comparison to the more grizzled Klaros, but boasts in the beginning about how his tongue has [[UnusualEuphemism "performed"]] before many high-class women. [[ShownTheirWork In Greece at the time the story is set, performing oral sex on a woman was actually seen as more effeminate than homosexuality.]]
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* CampStraight: Terpander acts effeminate and wimpy, especially in comparison to the more grizzled Klaros, but boasts in the beginning about how his tongue has [[UnusualEuphemism "performed"]] before many high-class women. [[ShownTheirWork In Greece at the time the story is set, performing oral sex on a woman was actually seen as more effeminate than homosexuality.]]
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* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: A major part of the later section of the comic focuses on, essentially, an inverted Thermopylae. It gets particularly clear in #5, which opens with Klaros making a doomed last stand against three hundred Spartans and using exactly the same methods that the Spartans used in Thermopylae--that is to say, guarding a narrow chokepoint and forcing the more vulnerable enemy to come to him.
* TheReveal: Of a sort. Throughout the series, what little description from the Spartans seems to paint Agesilaos, who's currently in Egypt as a mercenary, as the ideal Spartan king who would have run Sparta much better than Kleomenes. In the epilogue, however, it's revealed that Agesilaos is now a broken and weak old man, who died before he even returned from Egypt.
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* TheReveal: Of a sort. Throughout the series, what little description from the Spartans seems to paint Agesilaos, who's currently in Egypt as a mercenary, as the ideal Spartan king who would have run Sparta much better than Kleomenes. In the epilogue, however, it's revealed that Agesilaos is now a broken and weak old man, who died before he even returned from Egypt.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Klaros and Terpander are both killed by Kleomenes and his men, who return scot-free to Spartan society to continue its brutal and oppressive culture. But Damar survives and escapes to Messene, where she gives birth to Klaros' twin sons, names them after him and Terpander, and raises them in a free, peaceful life from then on.]]
* CampStraight:Terpander.Terpander acts effeminate and wimpy, especially in comparison to the more grizzled Klaros, but boasts in the beginning about how his tongue has [[UnusualEuphemism "performed"]] before many high-class women.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Terpander starts the entire plot by bragging to Arimnestos and his men about how a helot uprising slaughtered Arimnestos' namesake and his unit, which Nestos reacts to about as well as you'd expect.
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* NoWomansLand: Averted, as the novel points out that despite its grotesquely brutal caste system, Sparta was one of the most egalitarian classical Greek states in its treatment of women.
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* NoWomansLand: Averted, as the novel points out that despite its grotesquely brutal caste system, Sparta was one of the most egalitarian classical Greek states in its treatment of women.women--at least, the rich and upper-class women. Helot women, who made up the majority of the female population, were treated as badly as female slaves were everywhere else.
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* InVinoVeritas: The plot kicks off when an Ephor and his escort force a group of helots to drink wine. When they don't like what the drunken Terpander [[KillEmAll has to]] [[TheDogBitesBack say...]]
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* InVinoVeritas: The plot kicks off when an Ephor and his escort force a group of helots to drink wine. When they don't like what the drunken Terpander [[KillEmAll has to]] to [[TheDogBitesBack say...]]
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->''In Sparta are to be found those who are the most enslaved and those who are the most free.''
-->-- Kritias of Athens
-->-- Kritias of Athens
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** Near the end of the story, Terpander directly references the "tonight we dine in hell" line, taunting the 300 Spartans hunting them by saying that helots, who have been ''living in hell'' all their lives, would show them the way.
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** Near the end of the story, Terpander directly references the "tonight we dine in hell" line, taunting the 300 Spartans hunting them by saying that helots, who have been ''living ''[[FateWorseThanDeath living in hell'' hell]]'' all their lives, would show them the way.
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** Near the end of the story, Terpander directly references the "tonight we dine in hell" line, taunting the 300 Spartans hunting them by saying that helots, who have been *living in hell* all their lives, would show them the way.
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** Near the end of the story, Terpander directly references the "tonight we dine in hell" line, taunting the 300 Spartans hunting them by saying that helots, who have been *living ''living in hell* hell'' all their lives, would show them the way.
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** Near the end of the story, Terpander directly references the "tonight we dine in hell" line, taunting the 300 Spartans hunting them by saying that helots, who have been *living in hell* all their lives, would show them the way.
