1 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:16,034 When the boy was born...

2 00:01:16,034 --> 00:01:19,496 like all Spartans he was inspected.

3 00:01:20,163 --> 00:01:24,751 If he had been small or puny or sickly or misshapen

4 00:01:24,751 --> 00:01:27,546 he would've been discarded.

5 00:01:34,428 --> 00:01:39,933 From the time he could stand, he was baptized in the fire of combat.

6 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,876 Taught never to retreat, never to surrender.

7 00:02:05,876 --> 00:02:11,173 Taught that death on the battlefield in service to Sparta

8 00:02:11,173 --> 00:02:14,801 is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life.

9 00:02:29,525 --> 00:02:34,279 At age seven, as is customary in Sparta...

10 00:02:34,279 --> 00:02:39,535 the boy was taken from his mother and plunged in a world of violence.

11 00:02:40,202 --> 00:02:45,499 Manufactured by 300 years of Spartan warrior society

12 00:02:45,499 --> 00:02:49,628 to create the finest soldiers the world has ever known.

13 00:02:49,962 --> 00:02:52,923 The agoge, as it's called...