Young Spartans Exercising 1860 by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas 1834-1917 France French ( Plutarch writes of Lycurgus, the legislator of ancient Sparta, ordering Spartan girls to engage in wrestling contests; here they urge the boys to fight. )

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