Spartans : a new history
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Spartans : a new history
（Ancient cultures）
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9781405129992
Description
Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity.
Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history
Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan
Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere
Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
Table of Contents
List of illustrations vi
Map vii
Introduction 1
1 The Name, the Land, and the Sources 4
2 Sons of Heracles 20
3 Conquest, Crisis, and Consolidation 39
4 From Cleomenes to Pausanias 54
5 Helots and Perioeci 76
6 Governing Sparta 93
7 Leotychidas to Lysander 115
8 Agesilaus and the Army 135
9 From Archidamus III to Nabis 159
10 From the Achaean League to the Roman Empire 181
Bibliography 195
Index 203
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9781405130004
Description
Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity.
Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history
Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan
Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere
Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
Table of Contents
List of illustrations vi Map vii
Introduction 1
1 The Name, the Land, and the Sources 4
2 Sons of Heracles 20
3 Conquest, Crisis, and Consolidation 39
4 From Cleomenes to Pausanias 54
5 Helots and Perioeci 76
6 Governing Sparta 93
7 Leotychidas to Lysander 115
8 Agesilaus and the Army 135
9 From Archidamus III to Nabis 159
10 From the Achaean League to the Roman Empire 181
Bibliography 195
Index 203
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