The Shadow of Sparta

Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9781138006751
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134848928
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions. As interest has grown in the self-images projected by this most secretive of Greek cities, increasing attention has focused on how individual Greek writers from other states reacted to information, or disinformation about Sparta. The studies in this volume provide new insights into the traditional historians' question, "What actually happened at Sparta?". But the implications of the work go far beyond Laconia. They concern preoccupations of some of the most studied of Greek writers, and help towards an understanding of how Athenians defined the achievment, or the failure, of their own city.

Index

Greek naines have been hellenized wherever possible.

Abradatas 171 n. 41

Academy, the 208, 368

Accius 6

Achaemenids 137, 160–161

Achilles 26

Aeschines 195, 370–376, 378–379

Against Timarkhos 371–372

Agamemnon 5, 16, 18–19, 26, 270 n. 10, 384 n. 6

Agesilaos 84 n. 107, 102, 133, 144–145, 148, 156–157, 163–164, 171 n. 39, 194, 210, 212, 264, 381

Agesipolis 290

Agesippidas 70

Agis II 70, 95, 97

Agis III 354–355, 371

Agis IV 107

Aglaitadas 146, 157–158

Agora, Free 159

Ahuramazda 160–161

Aigina 46, 62, 97

Aiskhines 354–355

Akanthians 75

Akhaia 352

Alexander the Great 355

Alkibiades 69, 73, 77, 285, 301

Alkidamas of Elis 123 n. 91, 340, 356

Alkidas 321 n. 196

Ammon 288, 290

Amphiktyonic Council 385 n. 20

Amphipolis 75–76

Amphitryon 12

Anatolia 148

Anaxibios 166 n. 10, 293

Andromache 17, 21–22

Antipatros 355

Antiphon 372

Apollo 289–290

Apollodoros 394 n. 72

Araspas 145

Arbinas 160

Archidamian War 6–9, 11, 49

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introductory Note and Acknowledgements
• Euripides and Sparta
• Lacomica: Aristophanes and the Spartans
• The duplicitous Spartan
• Two shadows: images of Spartans and helots
• Xenophon, Sparta and the Cyropaedia
• ‘Blind Ploutos? Contemporary images of the role of wealth in classical Sparta
• Images of Sparta: writer and audience in Isocrates’ Panathenaicus
• Plato and Sparta: modes of rule and of non-rational persuasion in the Laws
• Aristotle on Sparta
• Sparta Re(de)valued: some Athenian public attitudes to Sparta between Leuctra and the Lamian War
• Index