What happens to the brand promise of heroic death once you surrender? Credit:rudall30

Ancient Sparta’s Branding Challenge

After a humiliating battlefield defeat in 425 BC, the Greek city-state of Sparta needed to restore its swagger in the Greek World. What would a modern branding team have advised?

Jeff Miller
8 min readJan 12, 2021

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Ancient Spartan warriors generated what modern communications’ experts call “brand heat”. Known for being…

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Jeff Miller

A culture writer, I enjoy tugging at the sacred, profane, and prosaic threads that shape behavior and belief.