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Spartans: A New History

Nigel M. Kennell 

ISBN: 978-1-405-13000-4

September 2009

Wiley-Blackwell

226 pages

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Spartans: A New History

Nigel M. Kennell

E-Book
978-1-444-36053-0
September 2011
$42.00
Paperback
978-1-405-13000-4
September 2009
$51.95
Description

Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity.

  • Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history
  • Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan
  • Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere
  • Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
About the Author
Nigel M. Kennell is an Instructor at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece. He is the author of The Gymnasium of Virtue (1995), and has published numerous articles on Spartan history and Greek civic institutions – especially the gymnasium – in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Features
  • Provides a complete survey of Spartan history from its origins in the Bronze Age to the end of antiquity
  • Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about its history
  • Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan
  • Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere
  • Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
Series
Ancient Cultures
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