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The Shadow of Sparta

By Anton Powell

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0415104130, 9780415104135, 9780203085073
LCC
PA3009 .S48 1994
Open Library ID
OL1431978M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2097690 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
256\417
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In the past twenty 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Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions.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 volume provide new insights into the traditional historians' question, "What actually happened at Sparta?". But the implications of the work go far beyond Laconia. They concern preoccupations of some of the most studied of Greek writers, and help towards an understanding of how Athenians defined the achievment, or the failure, of their own city.

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