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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Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions.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.
| Introductory Note and Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Euripides and Sparta | p. 1 |
| Lacomica: Aristophanes and the Spartans | p. 35 |
| The Duplicitous Spartan | p. 59 |
| Two Shadows: Images of Spartans and Helots | p. 87 |
| Xenophon, Sparta and the Cyropaedia | p. 127 |
| 'Blind Ploutos'?: Contemporary Images of the Role of Wealth in Classical Sparta | p. 183 |
| Notes | p. 217 |
| Images of Sparta: Writer and Audience in Isocrates' Panathenaicus | p. 223 |
| Plato and Sparta: Modes of Rule and of Non-Rational Persuasion the Laws | p. 273 |
| Aristotle on Sparta | p. 323 |
| Sparta Re(De)Valued: Some Athenian Public Attitudes to Sparta between Leuctra and the Lamian War | p. 347 |
| Index | p. 401 |
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ISBN: 9780415104135
ISBN-10: 0415104130
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 18 years old
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 14th February 1994
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9
x 3.4
Weight (kg): 0.68
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