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Cover 1 Title Page 4 Contents 6 Introduction 8 1. Snatching and keeping: The motif of taking in Spartan culture 18 2. Suicide in Spartan society 42 The nature of the Spartan kleros 64 4. The Hyakinthia of Sparta 94 5. Female property ownership and empowerment in classical and Hellenistic Sparta 120 6. The women of Sparta - and of other Greek cities - at war 154 7. Women's way of death: fatal childbirth or hierai? Commemorative stones at Sparta and Plutarch, Lycurgus, 27.3 168 8. The logic of terror: Thucydides, Spartan duplicity and an improbable massacre 196 9. The clandestine massacre of the helots (Thucydides 4.80) 216 10. Orestes at Sparta: The political significance of the grave of the hero 236 11. Xenophon's sons in Sparta? Perspectives on xenoi in the Spartan upbringing 248 12. Xenophon, Artemis and Scillus 268 13. Aristomenes of Messenia and his talismanic shield 300 14. Utopia on the Eurotas: Economic aspects of the Spartan mirage 326 15. The paradigm of democracy: Sparta in Enlightenment thought 356 16. Loyalty and liberty: Thermopylae in western imagination 380 Index 402

Author

Thomas J. Figueira, ed.

Language

EN