In light of this, did the Spartans lay claim to any specific discipline of philosophy? Some that I consulted hypothesized that they had, indirectly through their training, mastered stoicism. I somewhat agree with that, although I have a feeling there was more due to their code of ethics than stoicism, since it was practiced in many parts of Greece. Their whole vision of a perfect utopia of perfect soldiers under a great code of law, and a scorn for material items and money was revolutionary at the time of its establishment by Lycurgus, and was not utilized in any other polis. In fact, we may assume that the Spartans were actually one of the first to establish the idea of citizenship, in a time when kings and Tyrants were still in power. This new(at the time, new) mode of thinking should have some sort of unique philosophy to it, since it was founded decades before stoicism, epicureanism, and cynicism were even recognized.