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A Companion to Sparta
ancient Greece
ancient history
ancient Rome
ancient Sparta
Anton Powell
archaic Greece
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classic Greek
classical Greece
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Greek Dark Ages
Greek history
guide to Sparta
Roman history
Sparta
Sparta and the Roman Empire
Sparta in the Roman Period
Spartan
Spartan archaeology
Spartan arts
Spartan culture
Spartan history
Spartan life
Spartan military
Spartan myths
Spartan senate
Spartan society
Spartan studies
Spartan warriors
Spartan women
warrior societies
Product details
- ISBN 9781119098966
- Weight: 1157g
- Dimensions: 175 x 252mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2025
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
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.
