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The Spartan Tradition in European Thought (Clarendon Paperbacks)

By Elizabeth Rawson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1991
ISBN
0198147333, 9780198147336
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22950814 bytes)
Pages
412\205
Time added
2021-03-15 01:10:06

Description

Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes, Whig England, and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate, and indicates Sparta's role--over twenty-five centuries--in the intellectual history of Europe.

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