- Patriotism and courage and honour that would come to the brave and the disgrace to the coward
- poetry was didactic: it was designed to teach the young men and boys of sparta the correct attitudes
- most probably a native spartan
- valued for the poetry's insights - graphic description of formations and armour and the mentality of the hoplites
- courage, discipline and manliness
- politica; conservative
- 12 fragments and 3 complete poems have been conserved by Strabo and other writers
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