Sparta: new perspectives

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Introduction / Stephen Hodkinson. PART I: SPARTIATE INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY. Tyrtaeus'Eunomia: Nothing to do with the Great Rhetra / Hans van Wees (University College London) -- Perspectives on Spartan education in the classical period / Jean Ducat (Metz), Translated by Emma Stafford -- Admission to the syssitia in fifth-century Sparta / H.W. Singor (University of Leiden) -- Aidos at Sparta / Nicolas Richer (University of Paris 1 -- Sorbonne), Translated by Emma Stafford -- Sparta's kosmos of silence / Ephraim David (University of Haifa). PART II: SPARTANS AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD. An agonistic culture? Athletic competition in archaic and classical Spartan society / Stephen Hodkinson (University of Manchester) -- From Perioikoi to Poleis: The Laconian cities in the late hellenistic period / Nigel Kennell (Memorial University of Newfoundland)-- The evolution of the Messenian identity / Thomas Figueira (Rutgers University)-- From Sparta to Taras: Nomima, ktiseis and relationships between colony and mother city / Massimo Nafissi (University of Perugia)-- Olympiad chronography and 'Early' Spartan history / P.-J. Shaw (University of Wales Cardiff). Part III: REPRESENTSATIONS OF SPARTAN SOCIETY. The Socratics' Sparta and Rousseau's / Paul Cartledge (Clare College, Cambridge) -- Sōphrosynē and the Spartans in Xenophon / Noreen Humble (University of Manchester) -- Athenian ideology and the empowered Spartan woman / Ellen.

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