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Sparta (Extinct city) -- Civilization -- Congresses.
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Descript |
viii, 348 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Note |
"This is the seventh volume of collected papers from the International Sparta Seminar, which was founded in 1987 and now meets biennialy - often under the aegis of the Celtic Conference in Classics. The present volume arises from the Celtic Conference of 2006, held at the University of Wales Lampeter."--P. vii. |
Contents |
Introductory note -- Elements of the Spartan bestiary in the Archaic and Classical periods / Nicolas Richer -- Divination, royalty and insecurity in Classical Sparta / Anton Powell -- Sparta and the politics of nudity / Ephraim David -- Laconian black-figure pottery and Spartan elite consumption / Andrew Scott -- The ghost of the Lakedaimonian state / Jean Ducat -- Spartans and Scythians, a meeting of mirages : the portrayal of the Lycurgan politeia in Ephorus' Histories / Paul Christesen -- Gynecocracy : how women policed masculine behavior in Archaic and Classical Sparta / Thomas J. Figueira -- Sparta and Nazi Germany in mid-20th-centry British liberal and left-wing thought / Stephen Hodkinson. |
Alt author |
Powell, Anton.
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Hodkinson, Stephen.
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Christesen, Paul, 1966-
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Alt Author |
Celtic Conference in Classics (2006 : Lampeter, Wales)
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ISBN |
9781905125265 |
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1905125267 |
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