Sparta / / Michael Whitby.
This volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century BC and the great rival of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries. During this period Sparta evolved a unique social and political system t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World : ERAW
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Freface
- Note to the Reader
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART I Early Sparta
- Introduction
- 1 The Credibility of Early Spartan History
- PART II Power and Government at Sparta
- Introduction
- 2 The Government of Classical Sparta
- 3 Trials at Sparta
- PART III The Spartiate World
- Introduction
- 4 Spartiate Landownership and Inheritance
- 5 Dining Groups, Marriage, Homosexuality
- 6 Social Order and the Conflict of Values in Classical Sparta
- 7 Spartan Wives: Liberation or Licence?
- 8 Religion in Public Life
- PART IV Perioeci and Helots
- Introduction
- 9 Perioecic Society
- 10 The Helot Threat
- 11 The Obligations of Helots
- PART V Sparta and the Outside World
- Introduction
- 12 Sparta’s ‘Foreign Policy’
- 13 The Origins and Organisation of the Peloponnesian League
- PART VI Spartan Decline
- Introduction
- 14 The Decline of Sparta
- Intellectual Chronology
- Guide to Further Reading
- Bibliography
- Index