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Spartans Nigel M. Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

Spartans By Nigel M. Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

Spartans by Nigel M. Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

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Summary

Spartans: A New History chronicles the rise and fall of ancient Sparta, from its Bronze Age origins to the powerful Greek city-state's demise in Late Antiquity.

Spartans Summary

Spartans: A New History by Nigel M. Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

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

Spartans Reviews

For those of us not experts in Sparta this is a useful and informative, but occasionally demanding, read. (Bryn Mawr, August 2010)

This is a book that one may with confidence ... place in the hands of anglophone undergraduate students. (Anglo-Hellenic Review, Spring 2010)


In der Einleitung stellt Kennell zu Recht fest, dass es eine grosse Diskrepanz zwischen dem verbreiteten Spartabild und den Forschungsmeinungen und -debatten gibt. Diesen Graben will das Buch uberbrucken, das in der Tat uber eine Einfuhrung hinausgeht, indem durchgangig auf antike Quellen verwiesen wird. Ausserdem werden Forschungsdebatten nachgezeichnet [...] Die Kritik im Detail andert nichts daran, dass der entworfene UEberblick grundsolide ist. Kennell greift neuere Forschungspositionen auf und berucksichtigt jungere Inschriften- und Papyrusfunde, was das Buch zu einer Neuen Geschichte macht. [...] diese detailreiche und umfassende Synopse kann dem Sparta-Interessierten nur empfohlen werden.

About Nigel M. Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vi

Map vii

Introduction 1

1 The Name, the Land, and the Sources 4

2 Sons of Heracles 20

3 Conquest, Crisis, and Consolidation 39

4 From Cleomenes to Pausanias 54

5 Helots and Perioeci 76

6 Governing Sparta 93

7 Leotychidas to Lysander 115

8 Agesilaus and the Army 135

9 From Archidamus III to Nabis 159

10 From the Achaean League to the Roman Empire 181

Bibliography 195

Index 203

Additional information

GOR005943865
9781405130004
1405130008
Spartans: A New History by Nigel M. Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
Nigel M. Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
Ancient Cultures
Used - Very Good
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20090821
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