Andrew J. Bayliss

The Spartans

Sprecher: Grindell, Shaun

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: TANTOR AUDIO
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 272 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798200255467
• Artikelnr.: 61591744

Autorenporträt

Andrew J. Bayliss is an Associate Professor in Greek History at the University of Birmingham. He has published extensively on Sparta and Ancient Greece, including After Demosthenes: The Politics of Early Hellenistic Athens (2011) and Oath and State in Ancient Greece (2012), which was co-written with Alan H. Sommerstein. He has completed commentaries on the fragments of the lost Spartan authors Sosobius, Molpis, Nicocles, Hippasus, Phaestus, and Polycrates for Brill's New Jacoby Online , and is currently working on a database of ancient references to Spartan emotions, actions, and attitudes.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: the legend of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae
2: Sparta's civic structure
3: Raising a Spartan
4: The Spartan lifestyle
5: Helots and perioikoi
6: Spartan women
7: The Spartan mirage and normalising Sparta
8: The modern reception of Sparta
Further reading
Index