laconomania

Etymology

From Lacono- + -mania.

laconomania means love for or obsession with the Spartans. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

noun

love for or obsession with the Spartans“This ‘Laconomania’ is met in Plato, Xenophon, Polybius, Plutarch and many others in the ‘classical heritage’, which in time came to inspire generations of lycée-trained young men; a man like Saint-Just is an obvious product of it.”