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Sparta: The Body Politic(Sparta and its Influence)

Sparta: The Body Politic(Sparta and its Influence)


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Crucial to the understanding of Athenian literature and the political history of numerous Greek states, the history of Sparta is, at last, receiving due attention. Here are fourteen original pieces of archaeological research from eminent scholars Han van Wees, Jean Ducat, H.W. Singor, Nicolas Richer, Ephraim David, Stephen Hodkinson, Nigel Kennell, Thomas Figueira, Massimo Nafissi, P-J Shaw, Paul Cartledge, Noreen Humble, Ellen Greenstein Millender and Anton Powell, first presented at a conference in Hay-on-Wye in September 1997.

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.

About the Author :
Stephen Hodkinson is an internationally recognised authority on Sparta and the founder of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies. Author of numerous influential studies on Greek history, his Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (2000) is the leading work in its field. He has been made an Honorary Citizen of modern Sparta for his contributions to the global understanding of Spartan history. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780715629086
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 472
  • Series Title: Sparta and its Influence
  • Weight: 930 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0715629085
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Body Politic
  • Width: 160 mm


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