Property And Wealth In Classical Sparta
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Author | : Stephen Hodkinson |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2009-12-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1910589349 |
The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Sparta's success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform lifestyle and a communal sharing of resources. Over time, however, increasing inequalities led to a plutocratic society and to the decline of Spartan power. Using an innovative combination of historical, archaeological and sociological methods, Stephen Hodkinson challenges traditional views of Sparta's isolation from general Greek culture. This volume is the first major monograph-length discussion of a subject on which the author is recognised as the leading international authority.
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2021-12-23 |
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ISBN | : 9781910589830 |
Author | : Sarah B. Pomeroy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195130676 |
In this book, Sarah Pomeroy seeks to reconstruct the lives and the world of Sparta's women--including how their legal status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, this is the first full-length study of Spartan women.
Author | : Anton Powell |
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Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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This is the fourth collection of original papers on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated; a sequel to Classical Sparta: The Shadow of Sparta and Sparta: New Perspectives . The distinguished team of contributors includes most of the established authorities in the field of Spartan history and deliberately mixes the diverse scholarly traditions of many countries. Among the themes addressed are Herodotus' treatment of Sparta, Thermopylai and its moral equation with self-sacrifice, the invention of tradition, iron currency and the Spartan economy and the relationship between helots and perioikoi .
Author | : Anton Powell |
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Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Sparta (Extinct city) |
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Features in-depth coverage of Spartan history and culture
Author | : Anton Powell |
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
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Stephen Hodkinson is an internationally-recognised authority on the history of Sparta. Author of numerous influential studies in Greek history, his book Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (2000) is the leading work in its field. Stephen Hodkinson is Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies at the University of Nottingham. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Stephen Hodkinson |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2006-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1910589543 |
Ten new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta's most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira explores the paradox that Sparta's cavalry was an undistinguished institution. Jean Ducat conducts the most thorough study to date of Sparta's official cowards, the 'tremblers'. Anton Powell asks why Sparta chose not to destroy Athens after the Peloponnesian War. And Stephen Hodkinson argues that the image of Spartan society as militaristic may after all be a?mirage. This is the sixth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, founded by Powell and Hodkinson in 1988. The series has established itself as the main forum for the study of Spartan history.
Author | : Sarah B. Pomeroy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2002-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199880999 |
This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower classes. Classicist Sarah B. Pomeroy comprehensively analyzes ancient texts and archaeological evidence to construct the world of these elusive though much noticed females. Sparta has always posed a challenge to ancient historians because information about the society is relatively scarce. Most existing scholarship on Sparta concerns the military history of the city and its heavily male-dominated social structure--almost as if there were no women in Sparta. Yet perhaps the most famous of mythic Greek women, Menelaus' wife Helen, the cause of the Trojan War, was herself a Spartan. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, Spartan Women reconstructs the lives and the world of Sparta's women, including how their status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. Proceeding through the archaic, classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, Spartan Women includes discussions of education, family life, reproduction, religion, and athletics.
Author | : Thomas J. Figueira |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2004-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1914535219 |
This is the fifth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Thomas J. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen papers; fifteen are new, the other is newly translated from the French. Among the authors are most of the world's leading authorities on the history of Sparta. There are particular concentrations of papers on Spartan women; the economy of Sparta; helots and Messenians; Xenophon and Sparta; and the modern reception of Sparta.
Author | : Anton Powell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317802330 |
This collection, first published in 1989, investigates aspects of the Spartan polity which have often been overlooked or underestimated. Viewed at least until the Renaissance as the epitome of classical virtues, Sparta has in the last two centuries suffered a rapid decline in reputation among liberal-minded scholars, repelled by many of the repressive measures employed by this remarkably successful city-state, which for centuries dominated mainland Greece. Recent studies have emphasised permanent problems which beset Sparta: the small size of her citizen body, the tensions between noble Spartiates and commoners, the ambiguous role of women, and, of course, the helots. Classical Sparta: Techniques Behind Her Success seeks to present this intriguing polis by exploring how its perennial difficulties were, for so long, ingeniously overcome. Specifically, the essays in this volume address themselves to broadly ideological issues, demonstrating how skilful propaganda and deception contributed significantly to the longevity of the Spartan state.