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ISBN 10: 1280329068
ISBN 13: 9781280329067
Author: Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson
In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions. As interest has grown in the self-images projected by this most secretive of Greek cities, increasing attention has focused on how individual Greek writers from other states reacted to information, or disinformation about Sparta.The studies in this volume provide new insights into the traditional historians’ question, “What actually happened at Sparta?”. But the implications of the work go far beyond Laconia. They concern preoccupations of some of the most studied of Greek writers, and help towards an understanding of how Athenians defined the achievment, or the failure, of their own city.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Euripides and Sparta
Chapter 2: Lacomica: Aristophanes and the Spartans
Chapter 3: The Duplicitous Spartan
Chapter 4: Two Shadows: Images of Spartans and Helots
Chapter 5: Xenophon, Sparta and the Cyropaedia
Chapter 6: ‘Blind Ploutos’?: Contemporary Images of the Role of Wealth in Classical Sparta
Chapter 7: Images of Sparta: Writer and Audience in Isocrates’ Panathenaicus
Chapter 8: Plato and Sparta: Modes of Rule and of Non-Rational Persuasion in the Laws
Chapter 9: Aristotle on Sparta
Chapter 10: Sparta Re(De)valued: Some Athenian Public Attitudes to Sparta between Leuctra and the Lam Ian War
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