Sparta

The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks fresh ground, not least in the range of its contributors. The authors of the fourteen new papers represent nine different countries and demonstrate many of the fertile modern approaches to the history, the archaeology - and the still-influential image - of the city on the Eurotas.

The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks fresh ground, not least in the range of its contributors. The authors of the fourteen new papers represent nine different countries and demonstrate many of the fertile modern approaches to the history, the archaeology - and the still-influential image - of the city on the Eurotas.

IntroductionStephen Hodkinson I. REPRESENTATIONS OF SPARTA 1. Herodotus and Spartan despotismEllen Millender 2. Spartan ate at Thermopylai: semantics and ideology at Herodotus, Histories 7.234Michael Clarke 3. Was sophrosyne ever a Spartan virtue?Noreen Humble 4. Three evocations of the dead with PausaniasDaniel Ogden II. INVENTION AND TRADITION 5. Iron money and the ideology of consumption in LaconiaThomas J. Figueira 6. Iron money in Sparta: myth and historyJacqueline Christien 7. The invention of tradition in classical and hellenistic SpartaMichael Flower 8. Notes on the influence of the Spartan Great Rhetra on Tyrtaeus, Herodotus and XenophonMichael Lipka III. SUBJECT POPULATIONS 9. Helotic slavery reconsideredNino Luraghi 10. Helotage and Spartan social organizationNikos Birgalias 11. Settlements of Spartan perioikoi: poleis or komai?Andrey Eremin 12. Ouk homoioi, agathoi de: the perioikoi in the classical Lakedaimonian polisNorbert Mertens IV. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL RECEPTION 13. Sparta compared: ethnographic perspectives in Spartan studiesMarcello Lupi 14. From Thermopylae to Stalingrad: the myth of Leonidas in German historiographyStefan Rebenich Index