Greeks – in later times – saw Athens as 'the Hellas of Hellas', but in the classical period many Athenians thought otherwise. Athens might be a school of Hellas, but the school of Hellas was Sparta. Militarily and morally, Sparta was supreme. This book explores how Athenians – ordinary citizens as well as writers and politicians – thought about Sparta's superiority. Nine new studies from an international cast examine how Athenians might revere Sparta even as they fought her. This respect led to Plato's literary creation of fantasy cities (in the Republic and Laws) to imitate Spartan methods. And, after its military surrender in 404 BC, ruling Athenian politicians claimed that their city was to be remodelled as itself a New Sparta.
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Sparta, notoriously, was for Greeks the greatest Hellenic military, or moral, power for most of the fifth, as well as the early fourth, century.
Introductory Note Anton Powell Foreword Paul Cartledge 1 Sparta in Pericles’ Funeral Oration Paula Debnar 2 Athens, Sparta, and the t???? of deliberation Ellen Millender 3 Athens as New Sparta? Lakonism and the Athenian revolution of 404–3 BC Anton Powell 4 Viewing Sparta through Athenian engagement with art and architecture Michael Scott 5 Euripides, Sparta and the self-definition of Athens Edith Hall 6 Sparta and Spartans in Old Comedy Ralph M. Rosen 7 Imagined superpowers: Isocrates’ opposition of Athens and Sparta Carol Atack 8 Spartan echoes in Plato’s Republic Fritz-Gregor Herrmann 9 Aristotle’s critique of Spartan imperialism Malcolm Schofield Index
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This impressive volume complements its congeners.
This book explores how Athenians – ordinary citizens as well as writers and politicians – thought about Sparta's superiority.

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ISBN
9781910589632
Publisert
2018-09-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Classical Press of Wales
Vekt
606 gr
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
249

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Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, new edition 2002), Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005), Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009), and Democracy: A Life (2016). Anton Powell has published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens – and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He was the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition 2016), the editor of Companion to Sparta (2 volumes, 2018), and co-editor (with Nicolas Richer) of Xenophon and Sparta (2020). His monograph Virgil the Partisan (2008) was awarded the prize of the American Vergilian Society for ‘the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil’. He has twice been Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature.