A Companion to Sparta

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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2022 - History - 776 pages
The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire.
  • Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical Greece
  • Features in-depth coverage of Sparta history and culture contributed by an international cast including almost every noted specialist and scholar in the field
  • Provides over a dozen images of Spartan art that reveal the evolution of everyday life in Sparta
  • Sheds new light on a modern controversy relating to changes in Spartan society from the Archaic to Classical periods

Other editions - View all

A Companion to Sparta
Anton Powell
Limited preview - 2017
A Companion to Sparta
Anton Powell
Limited preview - 2017
A Companion to Sparta: Volume I
Anton Powell
No preview available - 2018
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About the author (2022)

Anton Powell is Director of the Classical Press of Wales, and an internationally recognized authority on Sparta, Athens, and the Roman Revolution. He founded the International Sparta Seminar, and co-edited a succession of collective volumes which have contributed to the revival and reshaping of Spartan studies. Powell is the author of Athens and Sparta, Third Edition, and editor of Classical Sparta, Sparta at War, and Sparta: The Body Politic, among others.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Sparta
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Series
AuthorAnton Powell
EditorAnton Powell
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2022
ISBN1119098963, 9781119098966
Length776 pages
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History / Ancient / Greece
History / Europe / Greece
History / General
  
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