Quote Originally Posted by Byzantine_Prince
From the sounds of it Panda, you don't know much about Spartan History. Sure the city was destroyed many times. It was sacked by the Goths in 400s BC. Does that mean no more good warriors came out from Sparta? No. People remebered their old ways up until the very end.
What? The Goths aren't even mentioned in written history until about 250AD. Alaric's revolt in the late 4th century AD caused numerous Greek cities to submit to him, but they had been part of the Roman empire for centuries by then, and certainly were not the military superpower they had been in the days of ancient Greece - the kind of military training the ancient Spartans had is only really achieved by gearing your whole society to the production of elite soldiers, which they did. Once they stopped, they lost that edge.

There definately weren't classical Spartan hoplites fighting the goths in the 4th century.