Sparta : new perspectives

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Sparta : new perspectives

edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Anton Powell

Duckworth with Classical Press of Wales, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text comprises of a collection of some sixteen studies of Sparta, ranging from the archaic to the hellenistic periods.

Table of Contents

  • The Socratics' Sparta and Rousseau's, Paul Cartledge
  • Sparta's kosmos of silence, Ephraim David
  • perspectives on Spartiate education in the classical period, Jean Ducat
  • is Spartan art different?, Reinhard Foertsch
  • the evolution of Messenian identity, Thomas Figueira
  • Artmis Orthia and the women of Sparta, Lyn Foxhall
  • an agnostic culture? athletic competition in archaic and classical society, Steven Hodkinson
  • "Sophronsune" and Xenophon's view of Sparta, Noreen Humble
  • from perioikoi to poleis - the Laconian cities in the late hellenistic period, Nigel Kennell
  • Demaratus, Leonidas and the Spartiate ideology, Mario Lombardo
  • Athenian ideology and the empowered Spartan woman, Ellen Greenstein Millender
  • from Sparta to Taras, Massimo Nafissi
  • female politicians and lovers - assertive Spartan women in Plutarch's "Lives of Agis and Kleomines", Anton Powell
  • aidos at Sparta, Nicholas Richer
  • Olympiad chronology and early Spartan history, P.J.Shaw
  • Tyrtaios, eunomia and the Great Rhetra, Hans van Wees.

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  • NCID
    BA48123717
  • ISBN
    • 0715629085
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvi, 427 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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