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Spartan Society
Av Thomas J. Figueira, Thomas J. Figueira
Inbunden, 2004
991 kr
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This is the fifth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Thomas J. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen papers; fifteen are new, the other is newly translated from the French. Among the authors are most of the world's leading …
Spartan Education
Youth and Society in the Classical Period
Av Jean Ducat
Inbunden, 2006
1092 kr
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Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and obscure alike - for Spartan education. He deploys his familiar combination of good judgement and …
Sparta and War
Av Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell
Inbunden, 2006
904 kr
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Ten new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta's most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira explores the paradox that Sparta's cavalry was an undistinguished institution. Jean Ducat conducts the most thorough study to date …
Sparta
The Body Bolitic
Av Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
947 kr
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This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series begun in 1989 by Anton Powell with Stephen Hodkinson. The volume is both thematic and eclectic. Ephraim David and Yoann Le Tallec treat respectively the politics of nudity at Sparta and the role of athletes in forming the …
Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta
Häftad, 2000
586 kr
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The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Sparta's success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform …
Sparta
New Perspectives
Av Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
514 kr
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The history of Sparta is increasingly seen as important, not only for its own sake but also for understanding Athenian literature and the political history of numerous Greek states. Traditional approaches to Sparta are now being supplemented by contributions from archaeology and the social …
Sparta in Modern Thought
Politics, History and Culture
Av Stephen Hodkinson, Ian MacGregor Morris
Inbunden, 2010
991 kr
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Images of ancient Sparta have had a major impact on Western thought. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution she was invoked by radical thinkers as a model for the creation of a republican political and social order. Since the 19th century she has typically been viewed as the opposite of …
Greek Superpower
Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians
Av Paul Cartledge, Anton Powell
Inbunden, 2018
947 kr
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Even Greeks – in later times – saw Athens as 'the Hellas of Hellas', the moral standard-bearer of Greek civilisation. But in the classical period many Athenians thought otherwise: Athens might be a school of Hellas, but the school of Hellas was Sparta. Spartan soldiers dominated the Greek mainland …
Thucydides and Sparta
Inbunden, 2021
947 kr
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Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his information on the subject is more scattered and implicit. Scholars in recent decades have made progress …
Luxury & Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese
Av Stephen Hodkinson, Chrysanthi Gallou
Inbunden, 2022
1166 kr
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A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, reverse the stereotype …
Sparta in Plutarch's Lives
Av Philip Davies, Judith Mossman
Inbunden, 2023
977 kr
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In this volume, eight scholars from around the world come together to consider Plutarch's understanding and presentation of Sparta, his flaws and significance as an historical source, and his development of Sparta as a resonant subject and theme within his bestknown work, the Parallel Lives.
Spartan Studies
Mendacity, Propaganda and (Re)construction
Av Anton Powell
Inbunden, 2026
1311 kr
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Sparta
Beyond the Mirage
Av Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson
Häftad, 2023
514 kr
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The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks fresh ground, not least in the range of its …
HERODOTUS, SPARTA and AUSTERITY
Av Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson
Inbunden, 2025
1166 kr
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Herodotus' 'History’, is our earliest historical source for Sparta. His work focuses on the later sixth and early fifth centuries BC, the period before and during the Persian Wars. His account is often thought to be relatively unsullied by the distorting effects of the ‘Spartan mirage’, which …
Archaeology and Sparta, Vol. 2
Territory, Material Culture and Exchange
Av Thomas Clements, Matthieu Guintrand m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
1237 kr
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Archaeology and Sparta, Vol. 1
Settlements, Cults and Burials
Av Paul Christesen, Chara Giannakaki m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
1237 kr
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Thucydides famously commented that if Sparta were to become deserted, its modest surviving material remains would give a very inadequate impression of the city’s power. In comparison with other major Greek cities, study of Spartan archaeology was for a long time relatively neglected. Over the last …
Aristomenes of Messene
The Legends of Sparta's Nemesis
Av Daniel Ogden
Häftad, 2026
1237 kr
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The legends of Aristomenes, hero of the Messenian resistance to Sparta, were designed to excite, gratify and amuse. Yet they remain almost unknown even to specialist ancient historians. This book, the first monograph to be devoted to Aristomenes, redirects attention to his adventures, which at …
Aristomenes of Messene
Legends of Sparta's Nemesis
Av Daniel Ogden
Inbunden, 2004
875 kr
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The legends of Aristomenes, hero of the Messenian resistance to Sparta, were designed to excite, gratify and amuse. Yet they remain almost unknown even to specialist ancient historians. This book, the first monograph to be devoted to Aristomenes, redirects attention to his adventures, which at …
Xenophon and Sparta
Inbunden, 2020
1020 kr
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Xenophon has long been identified as a chief contemporary source, if not the chief source, for the history of classical Sparta. But his information has commonly been treated in restricted ways. Scholars who have studied Xenophon's oeuvre have tended to apply a knowledge of Athenian history and of …
Sparta: Comparative Approaches
Inbunden, 2010
991 kr
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Both in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classical Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from other Greek city-states. This view has recently come under challenge from revisionist historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This is the first book …
Sparta's German Children
The Ideal of Ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps, 1818-1920, and in National-socialist Elite Schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945
Av Helen Roche
Inbunden, 2013
947 kr
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From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta. Helen Roche is the first to examine this still sensitive topic systematically and in depth. She collects and analyses official and published German evocations …
