How long do spartans live

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Spartan girls were allowed to remain with their parents, but they were also subjected to a rigorous education and training program. While boys were readied for a life on campaign, girls practiced dance, gymnastics and javelin and discus throwing, which were thought to make them physically strong for motherhood.

Much of the Spartan agoge involved typical school subjects like reading, writing, rhetoric and poetry, but the training regimen also had a vicious side.

To toughen the young warriors and encourage their development as soldiers, instructors and older men would often instigate fights and arguments between trainees. The agoge was partially designed to help make the youths resistant to hardships like cold, hunger and pain, and boys who showed signs of cowardice or timidity were subject to teasing and violence by peers and superiors alike. Even Spartan girls were known to participate in this ritualized hazing.

During certain religious and state ceremonies, girls would stand before Spartan dignitaries and sing choral songs about the young men of the agoge, often singling out specific trainees for ridicule in order to shame them into stepping up their performance. This commitment could last for decades, as warriors were required to remain on reserve duty until the age of Ironically, constant fear of Helot revolts and uprisings was a major reason why the Spartan elite became so devoted to building a strong military in the first place.

It later devolved into an outright blood sport after Sparta went into decline and fell under control of the Roman Empire. By the third century A. To prepare soldiers for the strain of war and discourage poor fitness, the rations doled out at these communal dining halls were always bland and slightly insufficient.

Spartans were renowned for their devotion to physical fitness and proper diet, and they reserved a special loathing for overweight citizens, who were publicly ridiculed and risked being banished from the city-state.

Wine was a staple of the Spartan diet, but they rarely drank to excess and often cautioned their children against drunkenness. In some cases, they would even force Helot slaves to get wildly inebriated as a way of showing young Spartans the negative effects of alcohol.

The Lord Of Admirals, Forthencho had a Military Career that spanned years, and when he was finally captured by the Didact and his Prometheans, he was still, at least to look at, around his middle aged.

It was because of the Forerunners decision to forcably devolve the remaining population of humanity, that humanites lifespan shrank considerably to the 80ish years we are accustomed to at present. But, incase it's not already abundantly obvious, I have a very keen interest in everything Spartan. Spartans receive a plethora of genetic engineering proceedures designed to refine the Spartans already superior genetic profile.

One such gene therapy is performed to the Spartans Telmeres. This is a compound structure at the end of chromosomes. It can be likened to the plastic tabs on the end of shoe laces, in that when you cut them off, the shoe lace begins to fray and fall apart.

Every time a cell divides, the telomerase is not copied fully. Over time this causes shortening of the telomerase, eventually leading to the cell being either unable to reproduce itself, known as the hayflick limit, or a corruption in the DNA strain, that leads to corrupt cellular mutation.

This means that a Spartans cellular biology attains a state known as cellular immortality. This doesnt mena that Spartans are immortal, as it takes significantly more genetic engineering to various DNA strains, including the mitocondrial DNA, and control of environmental factors to attain true immortality, but it does however mean that a Spartans body ages significantly slower than a normal human, and injuries that would generally cause severly inhibited function later on in life are cancelled out by the bodies ability to rejuvinate its own cells.

Additional genetic alterations are made to the Spartan to make them more tolerant to various diseases and illnesses, boosting the immune system and making it significantly harder for ailments, infections and diseases to take hold. The afforementioned alteration to the myostatin of the muscles is also a genetic based alteration, that sees the implementation of follistatin into the Spartans DNA.

Genetic enhancements to the bodies healing response is also altered, allowing a Spartan to recover from injury significantly faster than the average human. All of this, plus a load more that are still classified, are performed and have the net effect of making a Spartan age significantly slower than an average human. But how much slower?

On page 25, section 5, under gene therapy, in the Official Spartan Field Manual, it is openly stated that, and I quote, "Spartan Augmentation should allow for a longer lifespan. The upper limit of a Spartan-IV's natural lifespan has not been found, but we expect your peak fighting days will exceed a century.