Literacy in Ancient Sparta |
Contents
I Preliminary Problems and Definitions | 1 |
II Archaic Sparta | 17 |
III Minor Writers who were Lacedaemonians | 50 |
IV Foreign Writers who went to Sparta | 64 |
V Public and Private Documents of the Fourth Century and Later | 74 |
VI Sparta in the Second Century BC and Later | 81 |
VII The Extent of the Later Spartan Records | 88 |
Summary and Conclusions | 94 |
Appendix A Select Catalogue of Inscriptions Late Seventh Through Fifth Century BC | 98 |
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Achaean League Acropolis Agesilaus Alcman Amyclae ancient appearance Athena Athena Chal Athena Chalkioikos Athenaeus B.C. Jeffery bronze citizens Cleomenes constitution copy dedication to Athena Dicaearchus Dioscourides earlier ephors epigraphical evidence example existed FGrHist fifth century foreign fourth century gray marble Greek Herodotus Hippias illiteracy illiterate incised infra inscribed on stone inscribed sherds inscriptions interpretation Isocrates kings kioikos known Lacedaemonians Laconian laws in Sparta letters literacy literate Lycurgus Lysander official oracles Orthia shrine Pausanias perhaps Plut Plutarch Polydorus possible probably proxeny decrees records reference rhetra second century B.C. seems skytale small fragment Sosibius sources Spartans Spartiates speech Sphaerus stele Suda supra temple of Athena Thibron Thucydides tradition treaties Tyrtaeus vase votive offerings word writing written documents written laws δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν περὶ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν