Spartan Reflections - Softcover

Cartledge, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715629662 ISBN 13: 9780715629666

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press, 2013

Synopsis

The complex Spartan tradition has been central to western thinking influential today. Saprta is also one of the handful of ancient Greek cities well enough attested for the historian to attempt a convincing social portrait in the round.

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From the Inside Flap:

"This is a book that scholars will read with pleasure, and a book from which advanced undergraduates and graduates will gain a sense of what Sparta was like as a culture, and (just as important) the nature and state of play of contemporary Spartan studies. And it will be accessible for the well informed lay reader as well."—Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

"Paul Cartledge's aim, in this powerful collection of essays, is to shed light in dark places, to demythicize... Cartledge is shrewd, realistic, and far from starry-eyed. Over a quarter-century's exhaustive research, now updated, has gone into these densely documented and tightly argued essays. These Spartans, in the last resort, are exploitative slave-drivers, obsessed with keeping their serfs down (by annually killing off any resisters, among other things)... Modern idealizers of cold baths, black broth, mindless discipline and long route marches should read this book and, hopefully, have second thoughts."—Peter Green, author of Alexander to Actium

About the Author:

Paul Cartledge is Professor of Greek History, University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books, including "Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC" (1979), "Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta" (1987), and (with A. Spawforth) "Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities" (1989).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0715629662
• ISBN 13: 9780715629666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298