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Author: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780415262767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSparta is one of the best-documented states of ancient Greece. Its political and social systems have fascinated generations of classical scholars. This study uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta.
Author: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1135864489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta. The book explores both the city-state of Sparta and the territory of Lakonia which it unified and exploited. Combining the more traditional written sources with archaeological and environmental perspectives, its coverage extends from the apogee of Mycenaean culture, to Sparta's crucial defeat at the battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.
Author: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 113450389X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community. This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on the battlefield in 371 BC. The book's focus on a frequently overlooked period makes it important not only for those interested specifically in Sparta, but also for all those concerned with Hellenistic Greece, and with the life of Greece and other Greek-speaking provinces under non-Roman rule.
Author: A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-04-12
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1134503830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth at the special price of £32.00.
Author: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-07-17
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780520231245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a book that scholars will read with pleasure, and a book from which advanced undergraduates and graduates will gain a sense of what Sparta was like as a culture, and (just as important) the nature and state of play of contemporary Spartan studies. And it will be accessible for the well informed lay reader as well."—Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens "Paul Cartledge's aim, in this powerful collection of essays, is to shed light in dark places, to demythicize... Cartledge is shrewd, realistic, and far from starry-eyed. Over a quarter-century's exhaustive research, now updated, has gone into these densely documented and tightly argued essays. These Spartans, in the last resort, are exploitative slave-drivers, obsessed with keeping their serfs down (by annually killing off any resisters, among other things)... Modern idealizers of cold baths, black broth, mindless discipline and long route marches should read this book and, hopefully, have second thoughts."—Peter Green, author of Alexander to Actium
Author: Nigel M. Kennell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-09-19
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1444360531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity. Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780742515253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an updated bibliography.
Author: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of a critical period of Greek history, focusing on a single career.
Author: Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: 2009-12-31
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 1910589349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Sparta's success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform lifestyle and a communal sharing of resources. Over time, however, increasing inequalities led to a plutocratic society and to the decline of Spartan power. Using an innovative combination of historical, archaeological and sociological methods, Stephen Hodkinson challenges traditional views of Sparta's isolation from general Greek culture. This volume is the first major monograph-length discussion of a subject on which the author is recognised as the leading international authority.
Author: Anton Powell
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 806
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures in-depth coverage of Spartan history and culture
