Natalie Stopka is an artist and educator known for her explorations of handmade

and cultural stereotyping through a peerless collection of visual artifacts of colonial imagery

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Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower CAL Natalie Stopka is an artistA major new history of ancient Greeces most iconic city state. For thousands of years, the ancient Greek city state of Sparta has been famed as the ultimate warrior society. The flowing crimson capes and bronze shields of Spartan warriors remain the enduring image of masculine bravery, austerity, and toughness; King Leonidass 300 soldiers at Thermopylae the quintessential example of courageous self sacrifice in battle. But who were the Spartans,