Spartan society

"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."--Jacket.

"This volume is a collection that derives from the papers presented at the Fourth International Sparta Seminar which took place at the University of Glasgow on September 4-7, 2002"--Page vii.

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 …