Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
A heroic nature is very Greek.
I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.
I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'
The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.
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