Sparta - Comparative Approaches

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ISBN 10: 1905125380 ISBN 13: 9781905125388

Published by The Classical Press of Wales, 2009

Language: English

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Sparta - Comparative Approaches

Publisher

The Classical Press of Wales

Publication Date

2009

Language

English

ISBN 10

1905125380

ISBN 13

9781905125388

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

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Fine

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1.5 kilograms

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Both in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classical Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from other Greek city-states. This view has recently come under challenge from revisionist historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This is the first book devoted explicitly to this lively historical controversy. Historians from Britain, Europe and the USA present different sides of the argument, using a variety of comparative approaches. The focus includes kingship and hegemonic structures, education and commensality, religious institutions and practice, helotage and ethnography. The volume concludes with a wide-ranging debate between Hodkinson and Mogens Herman Hansen (Director of the Copenhagen Polis Centre), on the overall question of whether Sparta was a normal or an exceptional polis.

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Stephen Hodkinson is Director of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.

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