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Sparta - Beyond The Mirage

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Sparta In Plutarch'S Lives

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Luxury And Wealth In Sparta And The Peloponnese

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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 and explore the role of luxury and wealth at Sparta and among its Peloponnesian neighbors from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period. Using literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence, an international team of specialists investigates the definition and changing meanings of the term luxury and its nearest ancient Greek equivalents, providing new insights into Sparta's supposed abstention from luxury, and the way that this was portrayed by ancient writers. They analyse wealth production and private and public spending, emphasising features that were distinctive to Sparta and the Peloponnese compared with other parts of ancient Greece. Other chapters investigate issues still familiar in the contemporary world: economic crisis and debt, austerity measures, and relief provisions for the poor.
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Luxury & Wealth In Sparta And The Peloponnese

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Aristomenes Of Messene - Legends Of Sparta'S Nemesis

by Daniel Ogden

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 Aristomenes was the legendary hero of the Messenian wars who led resistence against Sparta and yet, despite a full account of his heroic deeds by Pausanias, is now almost forgotten.
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Spartan Society

by Thomas J. Figueira

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 In 2002 the Fourth International Sparta Seminar was held at Glasgow University; sixteen of the papers from that seminar are published here in this well-presented and authoritative study.

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Thucydides And Sparta

by Jean Ducat e Thomas J. Figueira

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 Scholars may agree: on the subject of secretive Sparta, a state richly productive of myth andwishful thinking, Thucydides stands supreme as a source.
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Xenophon And Sparta

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 Xenophon has for long, and understandably, enjoyed a privileged position as a reliable source on Sparta. Commander of a grand military expedition of Sparta's devising, and a dependent of Sparta's influential king Agesilaos, Xenophon knew Sparta from the inside, and - as himself an Athenian in exile - was well placed to comment on Sparta's difference. The simplicity of his Greek style has a perfume of honesty. And yet... Recent research has with increasing force called into doubt Xenophon's motives and truthfulness - especially as regards Sparta. Analysis of his Hellenica reveals much evasion and euphemism about Sparta's failings - complicated by occasional outbursts against the iniquity of Spartan imperialism. His euphemistic Constitution of the Lakedaimonians (itself containing such an outburst), and his near-hagiography of the dead Agesilaos, have variously evoked trust and suspicion in historians. This book, by a distinguished team of specialists in Spartan history, is the first of a short series from CPW, approaching Spartan reality by way of close analysis of our main contemporary Greek sources: their access, their biases, the literary structure and the genre of their works.
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Thucydides And Sparta

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 Scholars may agree: on the subject of secretive Sparta, a state richly productive of myth andwishful thinking, Thucydides stands supreme as a source.
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The Greek Superpower - Sparta In The Self-Definitions Of Athenians

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 Sparta, notoriously, was for Greeks the greatest Hellenic military, or moral, power for most of the fifth, as well as the early fourth, century.
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Sparta And War

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 Includes essays from a distinguished international cast that treat Spartas most famous area of activity. This title explores the paradox that Spartas cavalry was an undistinguished institution.
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Spartan Education - Youth And Society In The Classical Period

by Jean Ducat

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 Sparta was admitted by Greeks generally, even by its Athenian enemies, to be the School of Hellas. This title collects, translates and evaluates the sources for Spartan education.
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Sparta - The Body Politic

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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 Spartan state.
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Property And Wealth In Classical Sparta

by Stephen Hodkinson

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 From c.550 BC until her defeat at the battle of Leuktra in 371 BC, Sparta was a dominant force in the Greek world. This has traditionally ben explained by Sparta's egalitarian and militaristic society. Hodkinson's accessible and detailed study of Sparta's ruling classes shows how a new citizen organisation was established in the 6th and 5th centuries BC in response to the great discrepancy between rich and poor in Sparta which had caused a succession of civil wars. The book first discusses what Sparta ideally represented to the classical and modern worlds before considering the realities of Spartan landownership and private property and wealth. Hodkinson demonstrates that severe inequality never left Sparta but instead contributed to the rapid decline in the state's fortunes following the defeat of 371 BC.
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Sparta - Comparative Approaches

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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 come under challenge from revisionist historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This book focuses on this historical controversy.
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Sparta - New Perspectives

by Anton Powell e Stephen Hodkinson

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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.
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Sparta In Modern Thought - Politics, History And Culture

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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.
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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

by Helen Roche

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 The use by the Nazi regime of idealised images of ancient Sparta is increasingly recognised as an important element of the Third Reich. This work explores the historical roots and the personal effects of these ideals.
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Xenophon And Sparta - New Perspectives

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 The writing of Spartan history for long involved gliding - sometimes seamlessly - between the evidence of very different ancient sources. Now, a short series conceived by The Classical Press of Wales will examine closely and individually each of the principal sources and its relationship with classical Sparta.
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Property And Wealth In Classical Sparta

by Stephen Hodkinson

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 From c.550 BC until her defeat at the battle of Leuktra in 371 BC, Sparta was a dominant force in the Greek world. This has traditionally ben explained by Sparta's egalitarian and militaristic society. Hodkinson's accessible and detailed study of Sparta's ruling classes shows how a new citizen organisation was established in the 6th and 5th centuries BC in response to the great discrepancy between rich and poor in Sparta which had caused a succession of civil wars. The book first discusses what Sparta ideally represented to the classical and modern worlds before considering the realities of Spartan landownership and private property and wealth. Hodkinson demonstrates that severe inequality never left Sparta but instead contributed to the rapid decline in the state's fortunes following the defeat of 371 BC.
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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

by Helen Roche

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 The use by the Nazi regime of idealised images of ancient Sparta is increasingly recognised as an important element of the Third Reich. This work explores the historical roots and the personal effects of these ideals.
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Sparta - New Perspectives

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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.

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