Spartan society

Spartan society

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  • Full title :Spartan society / edited by Thomas J. Figueira ; contributors, Pierre Brulé [and others].

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2004.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xv, 389 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781914535215, 1914535219
  • oclc:ocn645703059
  • LC Classification:DF261.S8
  • Dewey Decimal:938.9

Table of 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 …

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