Spartan Society

by Thomas J. Figueira

Book cover: Spartan Society

Extent: 389 pages

Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Sparta and its Influence

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(December 2004)

ISBN: 9780954384579

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $95.00

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(PDF) (Published)

(December 2004)

ISBN: 9781914535215

Price: $76.00

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 sixteen papers; fifteen 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 on Spartan women; the economy of Sparta; helots and Messenians; Xenophon and Sparta; and the modern reception of Sparta.

Introduction - Thomas J. Figueira 1. Snatching and keeping: The motif of taking in Spartan culture - Stefan Link 2. Suicide in Spartan society - Ephraim David 3. The nature of the Spartan kleros - Thomas J. Figueira 4. The Hyakinthia of Sparta - Nicolas Richer 5. Female property ownership and empowerment in classical and Hellenistic Sparta - Stephen Hodkinson 6. The women of Sparta - and of other Greek cities - at war - Anton Powell 7. Women's way of death: fatal childbirth or hierai? Commemorative stones at Sparta and Plutarch, Lycurgus, 27.3 - Pierre Brule and Laurent Piolot Translated by Anton Powell 8. The logic of terror: Thucydides, Spartan duplicity and an improbable massacre - Annalisa Paradiso 9. The clandestine massacre of the helots (Thucydides 4.80) - David Harvey 10. Orestes at Sparta: The political significance of the grave of the hero - Klaus-Wilhelm Welwei 11. Xenophon's sons in Sparta? Perspectives on xenoi in the Spartan upbringing - Noreen Humble 12. Xenophon, Artemis and Scillus - Christopher Tuplin 13. Aristomenes of Messenia and his talismanic shield - Daniel Ogden 14. Utopia on the Eurotas: Economic aspects of the Spartan mirage - Paul Christesen 15. The paradigm of democracy: Sparta in Enlightenment thought - Ian Macgregor Morris 16. Loyalty and liberty: Thermopylae in western imagination - Emma Clough Index

  • By (author) Thomas J. Figueira