Berkeley; Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1961. — VIII, 92 p. — (University of California publications in history vol. 68). A thorough study of Phylarchus, a fragmentarily preserved Hellenistic historian of the 3rd cent. BC, whose work was devoted mainly to Sparta of the age of Agis and Cleomenes.
Praeger, 2011. — 252 p. The Spartans have seemingly never gone out of interest, serving as mythic icons who exemplify fearlessness and an unwillingness to give in against impossible odds. Yet most are unaware of the true nature of the Spartan leaders - the fact that the kings maintained their position of power for 600 years by their willingness to compromise, even if it meant...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 208 p. In ancient Greece, Sparta was unique in having a dual kingship - two kings from different clans, the Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning simultaneously. The institution was already well-developed by the 8th century BC, when Theopompos of the Eurypontid clan emerges as the first recorded Spartan king. At least fifty-seven men held office as Spartan...
Routledge, 2001. — 318 p. In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community. This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the...
London – New York: Routledge, 2002. – 369 p. ISBN 0-203-47223-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-78047-7 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-26356-5 (Hbk) ISBN 0-415-26276-3 (Pbk) Sparta is one of the best-documented states of ancient Greece. Its political and social systems have fascinated and perplexed generations of classical scholars, as well as having a powerful influence on...
Pan Books, 2003. — 288 p. The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals Sparta embodied militarism, totalitarianism,...
Classical Press of Wales, 2006. — 362 p. Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on Classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and obscure alike - for Spartan education. He deploys his familiar combination of good judgment and uncompromising recognition of the limits to...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 348 p. For a period of some 200 years, Sparta was acknowledged throughout the Greek world as the home of the finest soldiers. Xenophon called them 'the only true craftsmen in matters of war'. Nic Fields explains the reasons for this superiority, how their reputation for invincibility was earned (and deliberately manipulated) and how it was ultimately...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. — xix, 280 p. This book focuses both on King Agesilaus II (c. 443–c. 358 B.C.) as a man and as an infulential public figure, and on Sparta, the state he ruled for some 40 years during the period in which it dominated much of the Greek world. The Character and Personality of Agesilaus. Agesilaus as King and Commander. The Socioeconomic...
Ithaca – London: Cornell University Press, 1979. — 352 p. A detailed and thorough study of the period of 405-386 BC, in the afthermath of the Peloponnesian war, still indispensable.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1980. — 245 p. Index to figures. Index to plates. The discovery of Sparta. From Bronze Age to Iron Age. Cults and cult-places. Music and poetry. Art. The era of Spartan expansion (800-540 B.c.). The Spartan state. Life in the Spartan state. The era of Spartan intervention (540-491 B.C.). The Persian Wars and their aftermath (490-432 B.c.). The war...
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1962. — 164 p. Early Conquests. The Struggle with Argos and the First Messenian War. Political Troubles and Constitutional Reform. The Second Messenian War and the Conquest of Pylos. Sparta's Ascendancy. Kleomenes, Dorieus, and Damaratos. Kleomenes and the Helots. Notes 1 to 680. Appendices: The Family of Aristomenes. The Family of...
The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. — 241 p. The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of 'primitive' customs not found elsewhere...
Warszawa: Mada, 2003. — 408 s. — ISBN: 83-86170-91-3. Obok prawdziwej Sparty od zawsze istniała legenda Sparty, uosabiająca odwieczne marzenia o równości. zawarty w książce wizerunek Sparty nie zgadza się, o czym z góry należy Czytelnika uprzedzić, z obowiązującym w pracach polskich sposobem widzenia dziejów spartańskich. zdaniem autora Sparta, choć niewątpliwie pod wieloma...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 224 p. For at least two centuries the Spartan army was the most formidable war machine in Greece; the purpose of this book is to show the reasons for this. Professor Lazenby looks first at the composition, training and organization of the army, tracing its roots back to the eighth century BC. The second part analyses some of the main campaigns -...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 224 p. For at least two centuries the Spartan army was the most formidable war machine in Greece; the purpose of this book is to show the reasons for this. Professor Lazenby looks first at the composition, training and organization of the army, tracing its roots back to the eighth century BC. The second part analyses some of the main campaigns -...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 192 p. Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans were masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? Philip Matyszak examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved social issues to bring down the nation...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 192 p. Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans were masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? Philip Matyszak examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved social issues to bring down the nation...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 208 p. Their contemporaries were fascinated by the Spartans and we still are. They are portrayed as the stereotypical macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless and impervious to discomfort and pain. What makes the study of Sparta so interesting is that to a large extent the Spartans lived up to this image. Ancient Sparta, however, was a city of...
Franz Steiner, 1998. Der Autor sucht die Ursachen der Entwicklung der besonderen politisch-gesellschaftlichen Ordnung Spartas nicht im Streben der Spartaner nach milit rischer Optimierung, sondern in inneren Spannungen w hrend einer zentralen Phase im 7. Jh. v. Chr. Dabei zeigt sich, da vor allem skrupellose Aristokraten die Gemeinde mehrfach vor existenzielle Probleme...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 272 p. In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and with huge inner social problems, she seemed to have followed the fate of most contemporary city- states and fallen on the fringe of the political developments of her time. The 3rd century was a time when the great states and the...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 272 p. In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and with huge inner social problems, she seemed to have followed the fate of most contemporary city- states and fallen on the fringe of the political developments of her time. The 3rd century was a time when the great states and the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 840 p. The two-volume "A Companion to Sparta" presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. - Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 328 p. During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift opened and an intense, strategic rivalry began. In a continuation of his series on ancient...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 424 p. — (Yale Library of Military History). — ISBN10: 030011642X; ISBN13: 978-0300116427. A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world. More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 424 p. — (Yale Library of Military History). — ISBN10: 030011642X; ISBN13: 978-0300116427. A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 232 p. — (Yale Library of Military History). — ISBN10: 0300219016; ISBN13: 978-0300219012. An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history. For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 232 p. — (Yale Library of Military History). — ISBN10: 0300219016; ISBN13: 978-0300219012. An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history. For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Die bisherige Forschung erachtete Sparta zumeist als Gemeinwesen, das schon in archaischer Zeit gesetzlich streng reguliert und rein militärisch ausgerichtet war. Zugleich wurde in der äRevolution des 6. Jahrhundertsô das Enddatum fuer die Herausbildung der politischen Strukturen gesehen. Demgegenueber zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit, daá die...
J.B. Metzler, 2003. — 254 s. Dieses Studienbuch stellt die Geschichte Spartas von den Anfängen bis zur Aufnahme ins römische Reich dar. Dabei wird gezeigt, wie sich die politischen und sozialen Verhältnisse im Laufe der Zeit veränderten, so dass tradierte Vorstellungen vom erstarrten "Kosmos" überwunden werden. Die Behandlung der nachklassischen Epochen ergibt wichtige...
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1965. — p.310-551. — (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis; Stockholm studies in history of literature, 9). A comprehensive analytical history of idealization of Sparta in Classical Antiquity. Vol. I (Archaic and Classical ages). Notes Lacedaemon. Sparta and Athens. Sparta and the Ideal State
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1965. — p.1-309. — (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis; Stockholm studies in history of literature, 9). A comprehensive analytical history of idealization of Sparta in Classical Antiquity. Vol. I (Archaic and Classical). Text Lacedaemon. Sparta and Athens. Sparta and the Ideal State
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1974. — p.1-297. — (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis; Stockholm studies in history of literature, 15). A comprehensive analytical history of idealization of Sparta in Classical Antiquity. Vol. II (Hellenistic and Roman Ages). Text IV Sparta and the Ideal State V The Spartan Renaissance VI Sparta and Rome VII Sparta in the Roman Empire
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1974. — p. 298-570. — (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis; Stockholm studies in history of literature, 15). A comprehensive analytical history of idealization of Sparta in Classical Antiquity. Vol. II (Hellenistic and Roman Ages). Notes. Sparta and the Ideal State. The Spartan Renaissance. Sparta and Rome. Sparta in the Roman Empire
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1978. — Vol. 3 Indices, Corrections and Additions. — 78 p. — (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis; Stockholm studies in history of literature, 21). A comprehensive analytical history of idealization of Sparta in Classical Antiquity. Indices to vols.1-2, addenda et corrigenda.
Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2002. — XIX, 275 p. This volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century B.C. and the great rival of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries. Michael Whitby presents essays on key aspects of Spartan history and society, by some of the leading...
The Classical Review. 2022. - Vol. 72. Iss. 1 (January). - p. 1 – 3. Book review on: Cole M. The Bronze Lie. Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy. Oxford, 2021. The ‘Spartan legend’ as a research problem was formulated back in the nineteenth century (see E.G. Tigerstedt, The Legend of Sparta in Classical Antiquity [1965], vol. I, p. 310 n. 2). Since the 1930s this...
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