Shopping Cart : is empty
Home   |    Ancient Sparta / Laconia  

Spartan Society

by: Figueira, Th.J.

Price: 68,00 EURO

(in stock)
 
Category: Ancient Sparta / Laconia
Code: 13400
ISBN-13: 9780954384579 / 978-0-9543845-7-9
ISBN-10: 0954384571 / 0-9543845-7-1
Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales
Publication Date: 2004
Publication Place: Swansea
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 389
Book Condition: New
Comments: This volume is a collection that derives from the papers presented at the Fourth International Sparta Seminar which took place at the University of Glasgow on September 4-7, 2002"--P. vii. / xv, 389 p. ; 25 cm.

 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 16 papers; 15 are new, the other is newly translated from the French." "Among the authors are most of the world's leading authorities on the history of Sparta. There are particular concentrations of papers of Spartan women, the economy of Sparta, helots and Messenians, Xenophon and Sparta, and modern reception of Sparta

Contents:
Snatching and keeping: the motif of taking in Spartan culture / Stefan Link
Suicide in Spartan society / Ephraim David
The nature of the Spartan klēros / Thomas J. Figueira
The Hyakinthia of Sparta / Nicolas Richer
Female property ownership and empowerment in classical and Hellenistic Sparta / Stephen Hodkinson
The women of Sparta
and other Greek cities
at war / Anton Powell
Women's way of death: fatal childbirth or hierai? Commemorative stones at Sparta and Plutarch, Lycurgus, 27.3 / Pierre Brulé and Laurent Piolot
The logic of terror: Thucydides, Spartan duplicity and an improbable massacre / Annalisa Paradiso
The clandestine massacre of the helots (Thucydides 4.80) / David Harvey
Orestes at Sparta: the political significance of the grave of the hero / Klaus-Wilhelm Welwei
Xenophon's sons in Sparta? Perspectives on xenoi in the Spartan upbringing / Noreen Humble
Xenophon, Artemis and Scillus / Christopher Tuplin
Aristomenes of Messenia and his talismanic shield / David Ogden
Utopia on the Eurotas: economic aspects of the Spartan mirage / Paul Christesen
The paradigm of democracy: Sparta in Enlightenment thought / Ian Macgregor Morris
Loyalty and liberty: Thermopylae in western imagination / Emma Clough

xv, 389 pages ; 25 cm

 
  Already viewed

Le Lucerne di bronzo di Ercolano e Pompei

by: Conticello de Spagnolis, M. De Carolis, E.

  • ISBN-13: 9788870626407 / 978-88-7062-640-7
  • ISBN-03: 8870626407 / 88-7062-640-7
  • L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, 1988

Price: 245,34 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

Corpus der Minoischen und Mykenischen Siegel, Band II: Iraklion, Archaologisches Museum. Teil 2: Die Siegel der Altpalastzeit

by: Platon, N. Pini, I. Salies, G. Dessenne, A.

  • ISBN-13: 9783786140931 / 978-3-7861-4093-1
  • ISBN-03: 3786140936 / 3-7861-4093-6
  • Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1977

Price: 249,00 EURO

(in stock)
 

Spartan Society

by: Figueira, Th.J.

  • ISBN-13: 9780954384579 / 978-0-9543845-7-9
  • ISBN-03: 0954384571 / 0-9543845-7-1
  • The Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2004

Price: 68,00 EURO

(in stock)
 

The Amphiareion of Oporos

by: Petracos, B.Chr.

  • ISBN-13: 9789607965295 / 978-960-7965-29-5
  • ISBN-03: 9607465299 / 960-7965-29-9
  • Clio Editions, Athens, 1995

Price: 8,52 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

The Odyssey : Translation and Analysis

by: Dawe, R.D.

  • ISBN-13: 9780863328374 / 978-0-86332-837-4
  • ISBN-03: 0863328377 / 0-86332-837-7
  • The Book Guild Ltd., Sussex, 1993

Price: 195,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

Pompeii AD79 : sponsored by Imperial Tobacco Limited in association with the Daily Telegraph in support of the arts ; [exhibited at the] Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London, 20 November 1976-27 February 1977

by: Ward-Perkins, J.B. Claridge, A.

  • ISBN-13: 9780905692005 / 978-0-905692-00-5
  • ISBN-03: 0905692004 / 0-905692-00-4
  • Imperial Tobacco, Bristol, 1976

Price: 31,69 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

Appiani Historia romana. Vol. III, Index nominum

by: Van Niejenhuis, J.E.

  • ISBN-13: 9783815411230
  • ISBN-03: 3815411238
  • B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart, 1992

SOLD
 

Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid

by: O'Hara, J.J.

  • ISBN-13: 9780691068152
  • ISBN-03: 0691068151
  • Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1990

SOLD
 

Die Vergangenheit von Augen: Erinnerungsraume bei den attischen Rednern

by: Kostopoulos, K.

  • ISBN-13: 9783515125017 / 978-3-515-12501-7
  • ISBN-03: 3515125019 / 3-515-12501-9
  • Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2019

SOLD