Sparta: The Body Politics

Introduction - Stephen Hodkinson
1. The Spartan 'tremblers' - Jean Ducat Translated by P.-J. Shaw
2. The Spartan hippeis - Thomas J. Figueira
3. Commemorating the Spartan war-dead - Polly Low
4. Was classical Sparta a military society? - Stephen Hodkinson
5. The Lacedaemonian state: fortifications, frontiers and historical problems - Jacqueline Christien Translated by Anton Powell
6. Amompharetos, the lochos of Pitane and the Spartan system of villages - Marcello Lupi
7. Why the Spartans fight so well…even in disorder? -- Xenophon's view - Noreen Humble
8. The politics of Spartan mercenary service - Ellen Millender
9. Spartans and the use of treachery among their enemies - Francoise Ruze
10. Why did Sparta not destroy Athens in 404, or 403 BC? - Anton Powell
Index

Anton Powell was the Late Director of Classical Press of Wales, UK. He has published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens – and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He was the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition 2016), the editor of Companion to Sparta (2 volumes, 2018), and co-editor (with Nicolas Richer) of Xenophon and Sparta (2020). His monograph Virgil the Partisan (2008) was awarded the prize of the American Vergilian Society for ‘the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil’. He has twice been Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature.