Laconophilia

Laconophilia (also: Laconism) is love or admiration of Sparta and of the Spartan culture or constitution. The term derives from Laconia, the part of the Peloponnesus that the Spartans inhabited.

Admirers of the Spartans typically praise their valor and success in war, their "laconic" austerity and self-restraint, their aristocratic and virtuous ways, the stable order of their political life and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government. Ancient Laconophilia started to appear as early as the Fifth Century BC and was known as λακωνίζειν (literally: to act laconically). Praise of the Spartan city-state has persisted within classical literature ever since and surfaced again during the Renaissance period.