Sparta : History, State and Society

Kulesza, Ryszard; Michalowicz, Klaudyna (TRN)

ISBN 10: 3631868324 / ISBN 13: 9783631868324

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2022

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Inhaltsangabe:

SHS-Award for the best book in Ancient History in 2022 of the Polish Society for Ancient Studies. Richly illustrated with citations from ancient authors, the book Sparta introduces the reader to the universe of a polis which in the fifth and fourth century BC was a Greek superpower. Part I describes Sparta’s political institutions and mechanisms of governance, the structure of its society, the family, education, lifestyle and, naturally, the organization of the Spartan army and military life. Part II is an outline of the history of Sparta, and Greece, in the two centuries when the polis was at the peak of its influence, extending also into the period of its waning. The book closes with an analysis of ‘imaginary Sparta’ and the ways the Spartan legend has been employed in the shaping of various identities from the early modern era to the present.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ryszard Kulesza is Professor in the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His primary research interests center on the studies of Classical Greece.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sparta : History, State and Society
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New