Sparta.
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Frankfurt a.M. :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2022.
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| Series: | Studies in classical literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Spartans and Their State
- Chapter 1 The social system of Sparta
- A. The Spartiates
- The traditional picture
- A ban on ostentation?
- B. The helots
- The nomenclature and origins of helots
- Helots and the system of ownership
- The size of the kleroi
- The number of the helots
- Tributes paid by helots
- Who owned the helots - the state or its citizens?
- Interpreting the state's interference
- The Spartan distrust of helots
- C. The perioikoi
- The perioikoi poleis
- D. Slaves
- E. Freed helots
- Freedmen
- F. The neodamodeis
- G. The hypomeiones
- H. The mothakes
- Chapter 2 The political system of Sparta
- A. Kings
- The origins of the dual kingship
- The scope of the kings' authority (timai)
- Powers in peacetime (eirenaia)
- Judicial powers
- Powers in times of war (ta empolemia)
- Judiciary powers
- The king's place among the homoioi
- The material status of kings
- Privileges in life
- Privileges in death
- The political significance of kings
- The kings vs. the gerousia
- The kings vs. the ephors
- The influence of kings
- B. The gerousia
- Choosing gerontes
- The age criterion and the number of gerontes
- Prerogatives
- C. The ephors
- When was the ephorate established?
- D. The apella
- The prerogatives of the apella
- Who put motions to the apella?
- Did real debates take place at the apellae?
- The method of voting
- E. The ruling elite
- Chapter 3 A Spartiate and his family
- The marriageable age
- Getting married
- The dowry and the three procedures of getting married
- The matrimonial situation, or the (extra-)marital strategies
- Fraternal polyandry?
- Extramarital relations
- Divorce
- The inspection of infants
- The girls
- The Spartan women
- Wanton women, sportswomen, heroic mothers?
- The emancipated Spartan women?
- A Spartan mother: the birth of a myth, or, from the history of a fantasy
- Chapter 4 The Spartan education
- Chapter 5 The syssitia
- Member contributions at the syssitia
- Number of members
- Accepting new members
- Age differences between members
- Boys at the syssitia
- The atmosphere at the syssitia
- Social hierarchy within syssitia
- Relations between syssitia members
- The hierarchy of syssitia
- Foreigners at the syssitia
- Meal times
- What was eaten and in what quantities?
- Service
- Table manners
- Military functions of the syssitia
- Did Sparta have its own symposia?
- Chapter 6 The universe of war
- Part II The History of Sparta in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
- Chapter 7 The Sparta of Cleomenes and Leonidas
- The Peloponnesian League
- The Sparta of Cleomenes I
- The Persian Wars. Leonidas and Pausanias
- Chapter 8 Sparta between the wars
- Chapter 9 The Peloponnesian War
- Chapter 10 Sparta in the reign of Agesilaus
- The domestic situation in Sparta: the Rhetra of Epitadeus and Cinadon's plot