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Spartans:

A New History (Google eBook)
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John Wiley & Sons, Sep 19, 2011 - History - 232 pages
Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity.
  • Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history
  • Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan
  • Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere
  • Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
  

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There's quite a good review online at the Bryn Mawr Classical Review http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-08... Read full review

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I am only part way through, but the authors attention to detail, and wealth of knowledge of his subject is impressive...fvp Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
Sons of Heracles
20
Conquest Crisis and Consolidation
39
From Cleomenes to Pausanias
54
Helots and Perioeci
76
Governing Sparta
93
Leotychidas to Lysander
115
Agesilaus and the Army
135
From Archidamus III to Nabis
159
From the Achaean League to the Roman Empire
181
sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
193
Bibliography
195
Index
203
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About the author (2011)

Nigel M. Kennell is an Instructor at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece. He is the author of The Gymnasium of Virtue (1995), and has published numerous articles on Spartan history and Greek civic institutions – especially the gymnasium – in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

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