Sparta : : history, state and society /

Sparta : : history, state and society / / Ryszard Kulesza ; translated by Klaudyna Michałowicz.

A comprehensive introduction to the Greek superpower of the fifth and fourth century BC. Part I: the Spartan political institutions, mechanisms of governance, social structure, family, education, lifestyle, organization of the army and military life. Part II: the history of the polis at the peak of...

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Superior document:Studies in classical literature and culture ; Volume 14
VerfasserIn:
Kulesza, Ryszard,
TeilnehmendeR:
Michałowicz, Klaudyna,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : Peter Lang,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies in classical literature and culture ; Volume 14.
Physical Description:1 online resource (482 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I The Spartans and Their State
  • Chapter 1 The social system of Sparta
  • A. The Spartiates
  • The traditional picture
  • A ban on ostentation?
  • B. The helots
  • The nomenclature and origins of helots
  • Helots and the system of ownership
  • The size of the kleroi
  • The number of the helots
  • Tributes paid by helots
  • Who owned the helots - the state or its citizens?
  • Interpreting the state's interference
  • The Spartan distrust of helots
  • C. The perioikoi
  • The perioikoi poleis
  • D. Slaves
  • E. Freed helots
  • Freedmen
  • F. The neodamodeis
  • G. The hypomeiones
  • H. The mothakes
  • Chapter 2 The political system of Sparta
  • A. Kings
  • The origins of the dual kingship
  • The scope of the kings' authority (timai)
  • Powers in peacetime (eirenaia)
  • Judicial powers
  • Powers in times of war (ta empolemia)
  • Judiciary powers
  • The king's place among the homoioi
  • The material status of kings
  • Privileges in life
  • Privileges in death
  • The political significance of kings
  • The kings vs. the gerousia
  • The kings vs. the ephors
  • The influence of kings
  • B. The gerousia
  • Choosing gerontes
  • The age criterion and the number of gerontes
  • Prerogatives
  • C. The ephors
  • When was the ephorate established?
  • D. The apella
  • The prerogatives of the apella
  • Who put motions to the apella?
  • Did real debates take place at the apellae?
  • The method of voting
  • E. The ruling elite
  • Chapter 3 A Spartiate and his family
  • The marriageable age
  • Getting married
  • The dowry and the three procedures of getting married
  • The matrimonial situation, or the (extra-)marital strategies
  • Fraternal polyandry?
  • Extramarital relations
  • Divorce
  • The inspection of infants
  • The girls
  • The Spartan women.
  • Wanton women, sportswomen, heroic mothers?
  • The emancipated Spartan women?
  • A Spartan mother: the birth of a myth, or, from the history of a fantasy
  • Chapter 4 The Spartan education
  • Chapter 5 The syssitia
  • Member contributions at the syssitia
  • Number of members
  • Accepting new members
  • Age differences between members
  • Boys at the syssitia
  • The atmosphere at the syssitia
  • Social hierarchy within syssitia
  • Relations between syssitia members
  • The hierarchy of syssitia
  • Foreigners at the syssitia
  • Meal times
  • What was eaten and in what quantities?
  • Service
  • Table manners
  • Military functions of the syssitia
  • Did Sparta have its own symposia?
  • Chapter 6 The universe of war
  • Part II The History of Sparta in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
  • Chapter 7 The Sparta of Cleomenes and Leonidas
  • The Peloponnesian League
  • The Sparta of Cleomenes I
  • The Persian Wars. Leonidas and Pausanias
  • Chapter 8 Sparta between the wars
  • Chapter 9 The Peloponnesian War
  • Chapter 10 Sparta in the reign of Agesilaus
  • The domestic situation in Sparta:  the Rhetra of Epitadeus and Cinadon's plot
  • The expedition to Asia
  • The Corinthian War
  • Chapter 11 In the shadow of Thebes and Macedonia
  • Chapter 12 Sparta on the wane
  • Agis IV and Cleomenes III
  • Epilogue The afterlife. "Sparta", or the history of a myth
  • The "imaginary Sparta" in later tradition
  • "Sparta" in film
  • "Sparta" in service
  • "Sparta" in politics. The USA and Classical Greece
  • "Sparta" of the twenty-first century?
  • Sparta of the scholars, and more
  • Sparta. A Bibliography
  • Appendix 1: The list of Spartan kings
  • Appendix 2: The list of Spartan ephors.

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