Spartan Society

by: Figueira, Th.J.

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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 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

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

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