| Description |
xii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-263) and indexes. |
| Contents |
PART I: SPARTA WATCHING: 'Sparta watching': general introduction -- PART II: POLITY, POLITICS AND POLITICAL THOUGHT: City and Chora in Sparta: Archaic to Hellenistic == The peculiar position of Sparta in the development of the Greek city-state -- Literacy in the Spartan oligarchy -- The Spartan kingship: doubly odd? -- Comparatively equal: a Spartan approach -- PART III: SOCIETY, ECONOMY AND WARFARE: A Spartan education -- The politics of Spartan pederasty -- Spartan wives: liberation or licence? -- Rebels and Sambos in classical Greece: a comparative view -- The birth of the hoplite: Sparta's contribution to early Greek military organization -- PART IV: THE MIRAGE RE-VIEWED: The mirage of Lykourgan Sparta: some brazen reflections -- The importance of being Dorian: an onomastic gloss on the Hellenism of Oscar Wilde. |
| Subject |
Sparta (Extinct city) -- Civilization.
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| ISBN |
0520231236 hardback |
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