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Sparta and Lakonia

Author: Paul Cartledge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1135864551

In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta. The book explores both the city-state of Sparta and the territory of Lakonia which it unified and exploited. Combining the more traditional written sources with archaeological and environmental perspectives, its coverage extends from the apogee of Mycenaean culture, to Sparta's crucial defeat at the battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.

Hellenistic and Roman Sparta

Author: Paul Cartledge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 113450389X

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In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community. This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on the battlefield in 371 BC. The book's focus on a frequently overlooked period makes it important not only for those interested specifically in Sparta, but also for all those concerned with Hellenistic Greece, and with the life of Greece and other Greek-speaking provinces under non-Roman rule.

Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta

Author: A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus Paul Cartledge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-04-12

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1134503830

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This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth at the special price of £32.00.

Spartan Reflections

Author: Paul Cartledge

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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The complex Spartan tradition has been central to western thinking since antiquity. Images or myths of ancient Sparta are still exceptionally influential today. Saprta is also one of the handful of ancient Greek cities well enough attested for the historian to attempt a convincing social portrait in the round. Spartan Reflections, whose title is intended to capture both the influence of the Spartan tradition and Sparta's thought-provoking qualities, is a collection of thirteen essays, all either new or revised for publication in book form. Following a general introduction the book is divided into three thematic sections, on Polity, Politics and Political Thought; Society, Economy and Warfare; and The Mirage Re-Viewed.

Sparta

Author: Michael Whitby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1134727119

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This volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century B.C. and the great rival of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries. Michael Whitby presents essays on key aspects of Spartan history and society, by some of the leading classicists in the world, such as Paul Cartledge, Anton Powell, and Stephen Hodkinson.

Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta

Author: Stephen Hodkinson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781905125302

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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.

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece

Author: Claude Calame

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780742515253

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In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an updated bibliography.

Spartans

Author: Nigel M. Kennell

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-19

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1444360531

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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

A Companion to Sparta

Author: Anton Powell

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13:

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Features in-depth coverage of Spartan history and culture

Sparta in Laconia

Author: William G. Cavanagh

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Collection of 15 papers by outstanding scholars covering the art, archaeology and history of Sparta and Laconia from the prehistoric to the Byzantine period. Taken from the XIXth Classical Colloquium held at the British Museum, 6-8 Dec 1995. The papers bring together evidence and methodology on recording, research and understanding the heritage of the area. Contributions include: The work of the BSA in Sparta and Laconia (H W Catling); Pellana: the administrative centre of prehistoric Laconia (Th. G Spyropoulos); City and Chora in Sparta: Archaic to Hellenistic (P Cartledge); Spartan Art: its many different deaths (R Fortsch); Patterns of bronze dedications at Spartan sanctuaries c. 650-350 BC (S Hodkinson); Exceptional shapes and decorations in Laconian pottery (C M Stibbe); Dances, drinks and dedications: the Archaic kosmos in Laconia (T J Smith); Archaic Laconian vase-painting (M Pipili); The ancient Theatre at Sparta (G B Waywell, J J Wilkes and S E C Walker); Roman Mosaics from Sparta (A Panayopoulou); A Roman portrait of the early 2nd Century AD from Monemvasia (A V Karapanayiotou-Oikonomopoulou); New finds from Sparta (S Raftopoulou); Diversity in a Greek landscape: the Laconia survey and Rural Sites Project (C B Mee and W G Cavanagh); Geoarchaeological studies of the Spartan acropolis and Evrotas valley (K Wilkinson); Byzantine Mystra- Sparta in the mind (D Nicol)