Jerusalem wartime leaders can learn from ancient Greece | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Israel News
As Netanyahu evokes “super-Sparta,” Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war.
Repulse of Pyrrhus from Sparta’, 1890. Pyrrhus, in retreat at the Siege of Sparta, 272 BC from Spartans defending their city under command of Areus I. From “Cassell’s Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I – Early and Greek History”, by Edmund Ollier.(photo credit: Getty Images/Print Collector)BySETH J. FRANTZMANSEPTEMBER 17, 2025 18:32