Sparta - Comparative Approaches

Hodkinson, Stephen - Edited by

ISBN 10: 1905125380 / ISBN 13: 9781905125388

Published by The Classical Press of Wales, 2009

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8vo, i-xxxiii, 502 pp, previous owner's book plate on the front free end paper but an excellent copy in a protected dust wrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sparta - Comparative Approaches
• Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905125380
• ISBN 13: 9781905125388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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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.

About the Author

Stephen Hodkinson is an internationally recognised authority on Sparta and the founder of the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies. Author of numerous influential studies on Greek history, his Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (2000) is the leading work in its field. He has been made an Honorary Citizen of modern Sparta for his contributions to the global understanding of Spartan history. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham.