Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Early Sparta. The credibility of early Spartan History
  • Part II. Power and government at Sparta. The government of classical Sparta
  • Trials at Sparta
  • Part III. The Spartiate world. Spartiate landownership and inheritance
  • Dining groups, marriage, homosexuality
  • Social order and the conflict of values in classical Sparta
  • Spartan wives : liberation or licence?
  • Religion in public life
  • Part IV. Perioeci and Helots. Perioecic society
  • The Helot threat
  • The obligations of Helots
  • Part V. Sparta and the outside world. Sparta's 'foreign policy'
  • The origins and organisation of the Peloponnesian League
  • Part VI. Spartan decline. The decline of Sparta.