A companion to Sparta / edited by Anton Powell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Powell, Anton, editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sparta (Extinct city)--History.

Sparta (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (806 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2018.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. * Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical Greece * Features in-depth coverage of Sparta history and culture contributed by an international cast including almost every noted specialist and scholar in the field * Provides over a dozen images of Spartan art that reveal the evolution of everyday life in Sparta * Sheds new light on a modern controversy relating to changes in Spartan society from the Archaic to Classical periods

Contents:

Intro

Volume 1

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword by Paul Cartledge

Preface

Part I Reconstructing Sparta: General

Chapter 1 Sparta: Reconstructing History from Secrecy, Lies and Myth

1.1 Ancient - and Modern - Views of Sparta

1.2 Secrecy, Lies and Detailed Stories

1.3 Spartan Storytelling

1.4 Constructing History from Spartan Propaganda

1.5 Sparta Abroad - and Exposed

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter 2 Sparta: An Exceptional Domination of State over Society?

2.1 Changing and Contested Modern Views

2.2 Problems with the Ancient Sources

2.3 An Exceptional Domination of State over Society?

2.4 Did the State Determine Spartiate Society and Citizen Life?

2.5 Spartiate Citizens and their Household Affairs

2.6 Totalitarian State, Multiplicity of Koinōniai, Plutocratic Society?

2.7 Conclusion

Part II Origins: From Pre-Classical to Classical Culture

Chapter 3 An Archaeology of Ancient Sparta with Reference to Laconia and Messenia

3.1 Dark Age Laconia and Messenia c.1200-700 bc

3.2 The Archaic Period c.700-500 bc

3.3 The Classical Period c.500-300 bc

3.4 The Hellenistic and Roman Periods c.300 bc-ad 400

3.5 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4 Lykourgos the Spartan "Lawgiver": Ancient Beliefs and Modern Scholarship

4.1 From the "Great" Rhētra to Herodotos

4.2 Lykourgos and the Delphic Oracle

4.3 Genealogy and Chronology: Lykourgos the Regent

4.4 Lykourgos' Revolutions

4.5 Conclusions

Further Reading

Chapter 5 I Laconian Pottery

5.1 The Protogeometric and Geometric Styles

5.2 Laconian I: The Age of Experiment

5.3 Laconian II: The Introduction of Black-Figure

5.4 The Developed Laconian Black-Figure Style.

5.5 The First Generation of Laconian Black-Figure Potters and Painters

5.6 The Second Half of the Sixth Century bc

5.7 The Diffusion and Function of Laconian Black-Figure

5.8 The Laconian Black-Glazed Pottery

5.9 The Laconian Red-Figure Style

5.10 Laconian Vase Iconography

Guide to Further Reading

Chapter 6 Laconian Art

6.1 Definition of a Laconian Style

6.2 The Conventions of Human Representation in the Seventh to Sixth Centuries

6.3 Which Artists?

6.4 What Trade?

6.5 What History?

Chapter 7 Pre-Classical Sparta as Song Culture

7.1 Pre-Classical Sparta as 'Song Culture'

7.2 Musical Reforms and Opportunities (Festivals and War)

7.3 Alkman the Political Poet: The Civic Cults

7.4 Alkman as khorodidaskalos: the Partheneia

7.5 Alkman at the Banquet: The 'Syssitia'

7.6 Tyrtaios the Citizen-Soldier and Elegiac Paraenesis

7.7 A Political Culture of Musical Performance

Chapter 8 Luxury, Austerity and Equality in Sparta

8.1 The 'Most Revolutionary' Reform (Plut. Lyk. 8.1): Equality of Property

8.2 'Modern Simplicity': Restriction of Display

8.3 Conclusion: The Double Life of Spartans

Acknowledgements

Chapter 9 The Common Messes

9.1 The 'Finest' Reform (Plut. Lyk. 10.1): Legendary Origins of the Messes

9.2 Forms of Commensality in Classical Sparta

9.3 The Origins of the Classical Messes

9.4 Conclusion: Militarism, Egalitarianism and the Common Messes

Part III Political and Military History: The Classical Period and Beyond

Chapter 10 Sparta and the Persian Wars, 499-478

10.1 Four Kings and a Queen

10.2 Greek Alliance and Spartan Hegemony

10.3 Thermopylai to Plataia

10.4 The Use of the Victory

Bibliography.

Further Reading

Chapter 11 Sparta's Foreign - and Internal - History, 478-403

11.1 After the Persian Invasion: Sparta's Difficulties as the Greek Superpower

11.2 Clashing with Athens: The 'First Peloponnesian War', c.458-446/5

11.3 Uneasy Peace between Sparta and Athens, 446/5-431

11.4 The Peloponnesian War of 431-404

11.5 Sparta's Decisions of 404-3: To Annihilate or Spare Athens?

Chapter 12 The Empire of the Spartans (404-371)

12.1 The Zenith of Spartan Power: 404-394

12.2 The So-Called Corinthian War and the Peace of Antalkidas (395-386)

12.3 Heading for the Fall? (378-371)

12.4 Agesilaos or the Spartans? The Spartans or the Lakedaimonians?

12.5 Conclusion

Abbreviations

Chapter 13 Sparta and the Peloponnese from the Archaic Period to 362 bc

13.1 The Peloponnese

13.2 The Beginning of the Peloponnesian League

13.3 The Peloponnese in the Sixth Century

13.4 Non-Political Contacts Between Sparta and the Rest of the Peloponnese

13.5 From the 480s to the 430s

13.6 Tensions Between Sparta and the Peloponnesian Allies

13.7 From the Peloponnesian War to Leuktra

13.8 The Aftermath of Leuktra

Chapter 14 From Leuktra to Nabis, 371-192

14.1 Introduction: 371-192

14.2 Prelude to Leuktra

14.3 The Aftermath of Leuktra

14.4 Archidamos to Eudamidas

14.5 Areus and Hellenistic Monarchy

14.6 The Age of Reform

14.7 The End of Autonomy

14.8 Afterword

Chapter 15 Sparta in the Roman Period

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Roman Sparta: A Political Exception?

15.3 The Mythical Foundations of a Social Order

15.4 The City and its Values

15.5 Religious Practices and Civic Identity

Volume 2

Title Page.

Copyright Page

Part IV Culture, Society and Economy: The Classical Period and Beyond

Chapter 16 Spartan Religion

16.1 What is Spartan Religion?

16.2 Belief

16.3 Sacred Space

16.4 World-View, Ethos, and Key Symbols

16.5 Festivals and the Performance of Ritual

16.6 Women and Religion

16.7 Gods and Heroes

16.8 The Myth of the Divine Lawgiver

Chapter 17 Kingship: The History, Power, and Prerogatives of the Spartans' 'Divine' Dyarchy

17.1 The Sources

17.2 A Brief Overview of the Dyarchy

17.3 Collegial and Constitutional Limits on Royal Power

17.4 Dynamic Dyarchs: Kleomenes I and Agesilaos II

17.5 The Roots of Royal Power

17.6 Spartan Kingship in the Hellenistic Period

Chapter 18 Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community

18.1 Sparta's Exceptional Egalitarianism

18.2 The Kala and the Communal Upbringing

18.3 'Graduation' and the Mess

18.4 Merit versus Esteem: The Hippeis

18.5 Politics and the Spartan Elite

18.6 Patronage and Military Command

18.7 Conclusions

Chapter 19 Spartan Women

19.1 Myth, Mirage, and Sources

19.2 Education and Initiation

19.3 Marital and Sexual Mores

19.4 Land Ownership, Wealth, and Economic Power

19.5 Gynecocracy?

19.6 Conclusions

Chapter 20 Spartan Education in the Classical Period

20.1 Introduction

20.2 The Stages of Training

20.3 An Organization which Concerns the Whole City

20.4 Training Young People in the Service of the City

20.5 The Education of Girls

20.6 Conclusion: A Complex System

Chapter 21 Sparta and Athletics

21.1 Introduction: Sources and Definitions.

21.2 Spartan Sports in the Classical Period: Boys' and Men's Sports

21.3 Spartan Sports in the Classical Period: Girls' Sports

21.4 Conclusion

Chapter 22 Helotage and the Spartan Economy

22.1 Helotage: The Basic Features

22.2 Beginnings

22.3 The Helot Allotments and Rents

22.4 Messes and Dues

22.5 Population and Land Tenure

22.6 Conclusion

Chapter 24 The Perioikoi

23.1 The Perioikic City-states

23.2 The Perioikic Cities, Independence and Dependence: The Military Aspects

23.3 The Perioikoi and Spartan Kings

23.4 Sparta and the Internal Affairs of Perioikic Poleis

23.5 The Role of the Perioikoi in Lakedaimon as a Whole

Chapter 24 Roads and Quarries in Laconia

24.1 Introduction

24.2 Roads in Laconia

24.3 The Laconian Network

24.4 Laconian Roads: Conclusions

24.5 Roads in Greece and Elsewhere

24.6 Conclusions

24.7 Laconian Quarries

24.8 Conclusions

Chapter 25 Spartan Cultural Memory in the Roman Period

Part V Reception of Sparta in Recent Centuries

Chapter 26 The Literary Reception of Sparta in France

26.1 Pre-Enlightenment

26.2 Rollin and Montesquieu

26.3 Mably and Rousseau

26.4 The Encyclopédie

26.5 The Philosophes

26.6 The French Revolution

Chapter 27 Reception of Sparta in Germany and German-Speaking Europe

27.1 Sparta Rediviva: The Early Modern Period

27.2 The Rise of Altertumswissenschaften: Sparta in the Nineteenth Century

27.3 The Hellas of the German People: The Image of Sparta from 1900 to 1933

27.4 Adolf Hitler's Sparta: The Dorian Polity in National Socialist Germany

27.5 A Topic for Very Few Specialists: Sparta after 1945.

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2017).

ISBN:

9781119072393

1119072395

9781119072386

1119072387

OCLC:

981761116