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And even in antiquity it's worth noting that ancient Greek art is all from places like Athens or later with the Alexandrian civilization. There is real refinement and elegance and beauty. The cruel totalitarian Spartans never bothered with the Ionic or Corinthian orders. They used the crude heavy brutal Doric order for their architecture, appropriate to a civilization of slave owners who maintained the upper hand by terrorizing and raping and mutilating their helots as practice for war. A dead end society that can scarcely be called civilized. Much like the jews. In fact one Spartan king in the time of Flavius Josephus even wrote to the king of the jews claiming a close physical relation to them and it wouldn't suprise me if they were related given the shameless cruelty of the jews to their own helots, the Palestinians. The jews produce no good art, no beautiful architecture. Totalitarian states are ugly places for spiritually ugly people. Worth noting that in the early 20's the NAZIs and Mussolini fascists were admirers of Lenin and the Bolsheviks.