Spartan Studies
Autor Anton Powellen Paperback – 15 dec 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781910589878
ISBN-10: 191058987X
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: The Classical Press of Wales
ISBN-10: 191058987X
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: The Classical Press of Wales
Notă biografică
Anton Powell published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens, and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He was the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition, 2016), the editor of Wiley Blackwell's Companion to Sparta (2 volumes, 2018), and the author of Virgil the Partisan: A study in the re-integration of Classics (2008). He was founder and co-organiser of the International Sparta Seminar and (co-) editor of eleven of its publications. He was twice Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Foreword by the editor
- Introduction
- 1. Sixth-century Lakonian vase-painting. Continuities and discontinuities with the 'lykourgan' ethos
- 2. Mendacity and Sparta's use of the visual
- 3. Herodotus, the Spartan revolution and the logic of extremes
- 4. Information from Sparta: a trap for Thucydides?
- 5. 'One little skytale': Xenophon, truth-telling in his major works, and Spartan imperialism
- 6. Plato and Sparta: modes of rule and of non-rational persuasion in the Laws
- 7. Divination, royalty and insecurity in Classical Sparta
- 8. Athens' difficulty, Sparta's opportunity: Causation and the Peloponnesian War
- 9. Why did Sparta not destroy Athens in 404, or in 403 BC?
- 10. Athens as New Sparta? Lakonism and the Athenian revolution of 404-3 BC
- 11. The women of Sparta - and of other Greek cities - at war
- 12. Spartan women assertive in politics? Plutarch's Lives of Agis and Kleomenes
- 13. Spartan education
- 14. Sparta and the imperial schools of Britain: Comparisons
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General Index