The Shadow of Sparta

by Powell; Anton

• ISBN13: 9780415104135
• ISBN10: 0415104130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-02-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In the past 20 years, the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions. As interest has grown in the self-images projected by this most secretive of Greek cities, increasing attention has focused on how individual Greek writers from other states reacted to information, or disinformation about Sparta. The studies in this 6olume provide insights into the traditional historians question, "What actually happened at Sparta?" The implications of the work go far beyond Laconia. They concern preoccupations of some of the most studied of Greek writers, and help toward an understanding of how Athenians defined the achievement, or the failure, of their own city.

Table of Contents

Introductory Note and Acknowledgements	p. vii
Euripides and Sparta	p. 1
Lacomica: Aristophanes and the Spartans	p. 35
The Duplicitous Spartan	p. 59
Two Shadows: Images of Spartans and Helots	p. 87
Xenophon, Sparta and the Cyropaedia	p. 127
'Blind Ploutos'?: Contemporary Images of the Role of Wealth in Classical Sparta	p. 183
Notes	p. 217
Images of Sparta: Writer and Audience in Isocrates' Panathenaicus	p. 223
Plato and Sparta: Modes of Rule and of Non-Rational Persuasion the Laws	p. 273
Aristotle on Sparta	p. 323
Sparta Re(De)Valued: Some Athenian Public Attitudes to Sparta between Leuctra and the Lamian War	p. 347
Index	p. 401
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