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Ancient Greece
Author_Nigel M. Kennell
Category=NHC
Category=NHWA
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Greece
Greek history
Sparta
Spartans
Product details
- ISBN 9781405130004
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2009
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity.
- Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history
- Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan
- Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere
- Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
Nigel M. Kennell is an Instructor at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece. He is the author of The Gymnasium of Virtue (1995), and has published numerous articles on Spartan history and Greek civic institutions – especially the gymnasium – in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
