Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Snatching and keeping: the motif of taking in Spartan culture / Stefan Link.
  • Suicide in Spartan society / Ephraim David.
  • The nature of the Spartan klēros / Thomas J. Figueira.
  • The Hyakinthia of Sparta / Nicolas Richer.
  • Female property ownership and empowerment in classical and Hellenistic Sparta / Stephen Hodkinson.
  • The women of Sparta
  • and other Greek cities
  • at war / Anton Powell.
  • Women's way of death: fatal childbirth or hierai? Commemorative stones at Sparta and Plutarch, Lycurgus, 27.3 / Pierre Brulé and Laurent Piolot.
  • The logic of terror: Thucydides, Spartan duplicity and an improbable massacre / Annalisa Paradiso.
  • The clandestine massacre of the helots (Thucydides 4.80) / David Harvey.
  • Orestes at Sparta: the political significance of the grave of the hero / Klaus-Wilhelm Welwei.
  • Xenophon's sons in Sparta? Perspectives on xenoi in the Spartan upbringing / Noreen Humble.
  • Xenophon, Artemis and Scillus / Christopher Tuplin.
  • Aristomenes of Messenia and his talismanic shield / David Ogden.
  • Utopia on the Eurotas: economic aspects of the Spartan mirage / Paul Christesen.
  • The paradigm of democracy: Sparta in Enlightenment thought / Ian Macgregor Morris.
  • Loyalty and liberty: Thermopylae in western imagination / Emma Clough.