Sparta: Comparative Approaches - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1905125380 ISBN 13 : 9781905125388

Editeur : Classical Press of Wales, 2010

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Classical Press of Wales
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905125380
• ISBN 13: 9781905125388
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 502
• Éditeur: Hodkinson Stephen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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