Sparta

A sourcebook on Sparta, with a range of translated primary texts to support ancient history students.

M. G. L. Cooley (Edited and translated by)

9781009382779, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 June 2023

309 pages
27 x 18 x 2 cm, 0.519 kg

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Sparta, with accompanying maps, illustrations, glossary, chronology and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions, many of these being otherwise difficult for students to access.

1. Section A: Sparta from contemporary Spartan poetry
2. Section B: historical inscriptions relating to Sparta
3. Section C: Sparta in religion and religious festivals
4. Section D: Spartan institutions in theory
5. Section E: Spartan institutions in practice. 6. Section F: the Spartan mirage
7. Section G: contemporary Athenian views of Sparta
8. Section H: an historical overview
9. Section K: Sparta and Lakonia.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]