Winterkönig on Instagram: "The image of ancient Spartans throwing deformed infants from Mount Taygetus has long captured the imagination of popular culture. It conjures a stark vision of a society so obsessed with physical perfection and military strength that even newborns were subjected to brutal judgment. But this narrative, often repeated uncritically, demands closer scrutiny. The primary source of the story is Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus, written centuries after classical Sparta had faded.