by Plutarch, Plutarch, Talbert, Richard J. A., Scott-Kilvert, Ian
fromPenguin classics
by Plutarch, Plutarch, Talbert, Richard J. A., Scott-Kilvert, Ian
fromPenguin classics
by Plutarch, Plutarch, Pelling, C. B. R., Xenophon
fromPenguin classics
Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings, Plutarch depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep chasm, introduced a gruelling regimen of military tra…
From the late stages of the Agricultural Revolution to the doorstep of the Scientific Revolution, this course covers western history from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, when the "foundations" of the modern West come into view. Beginning in the ancient Near East, moving to Greec…
Une étude des systèmes politiques dans le monde grec classique. La diversité des choix politiques aux Ve et VIe siècles apparaît à travers l'évolution des cités grecques, démocratiques ou oligarchiques, et dans la constitution d'ensembles plus vastes que la cité : alliances à ca…
Introduction: the erotics of place -- Corinth, courtesans and the politics of place -- Medea in Corinth -- Laconic sex -- Lyric poetry, rape and Spartan song on the comic stage -- Lesbians are not from Lesbos -- Lesbos and the invention of heterosexuality in Longus' Daphnis and …
"In this book, Hyland examines the international relations of the First Persian Empire (the Achaemenid Empire) as a case study in ancient imperialism. He focuses in particular on Persian's relations with the Greek city-states and its diplomatic influence over Athens and Sparta. …
The ideal of Sparta - the devotion of citizens to a well-ordered state - became a legend which has survived for over 2,000 years. J. T. Hooker begins by describing the landscape, the cults and cult-places and the development of Sparta during the Bronze Age. Iron Age Sparta is th…
Sparta, notoriously, was for Greeks the greatest Hellenic military, or moral, power for most of the fifth, as well as the early fourth, century. For Greek intellectuals Sparta's value as inspiration, or indeed model, far surpassed that of the Athenian demokratia. Leading politic…
