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This is the fifth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Thomas J. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen papers; fifteen are new, the other is newly translated from the French. Among the authors are most of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Sparta. There are particular concentrations of papers on Spartan women; the economy of Sparta; helots and Messenians; Xenophon and Sparta; and the modern reception of Sparta.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 389 ● ISBN 9781914535215 ● Publisher The Classical Press of Wales ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7831923 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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