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"item_title" : "The Shadow of Sparta",
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Overview
The aim of this book was to cast light both on non-Spartan thought and on Spartan practice. Contributors were asked to examine possible effects of images of Sparta, whether realistic or not, upon the thought of non-Spartan Greeks. Various approaches have been used. Some trace what might seem fair representation or honest misunderstanding by non-Spartans of Spartan reality. Others examine anti-Spartan invective and pro-Spartan apologia in Athenian poetry. Others again ask whether ideal systems of education and of politics, described by Athenian prose-writers, were the product of conscious extrapolation of Spartan methods: how far, in short, writers sought to commend an imaginary 'super-Sparta'.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415104135
- ISBN-10: 0415104130
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: May 1994
- Dimensions: 8.79 x 5.74 x 1.31 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.48 pounds
- Page Count: 408
- Reading Level: Ages 18-18
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