Greek Superpower

This impressive volume complements its congeners. * Classical Journal *

Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, new edition 2002), Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005), Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009), and Democracy: A Life (2016). Anton Powell has published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He was the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition 2016), the editor of Companion to Sparta (2 volumes, 2018), and co-editor (with Nicolas Richer) of Xenophon and Sparta (2020). His monograph Virgil the Partisan (2008) was awarded the prize of the American Vergilian Society for the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil. He has twice been Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Suprieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature.

Introductory Note Anton Powell Foreword Paul Cartledge 1 Sparta in Pericles Funeral Oration Paula Debnar 2 Athens, Sparta, and the t???? of deliberation Ellen Millender 3 Athens as New Sparta? Lakonism and the Athenian revolution of 4043 BC Anton Powell 4 Viewing Sparta through Athenian engagement with art and architecture Michael Scott 5 Euripides, Sparta and the self-definition of Athens Edith Hall 6 Sparta and Spartans in Old Comedy Ralph M. Rosen 7 Imagined superpowers: Isocrates opposition of Athens and Sparta Carol Atack 8 Spartan echoes in Platos Republic Fritz-Gregor Herrmann 9 Aristotles critique of Spartan imperialism Malcolm Schofield Index