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Title: Spartan Reflections by Paul Cartledge ISBN: 0-520-23123-6 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reflections on a mirage
Comment: Paul Cartledge of Cambridge university is one of the foremost philhellenes and classical scholars in the world. Beyond that, to my knowledge he is the preeminent authority on ancient Sparta of the present age. In fact, I can only think of a handful of names that would qualify as being in his class.
The present book is a compilation of essays that Cartledge wrote during various times during his intellectual career. Cartledge engages sundry enduring questions that the in inquisitor of Spartan history is apt to have.
Some of the topics covered include the Laconian approach to slavery, homosexuality, the art of war, the duel kingship concept, the idea of the egalitarian citizen, the position and treatment of Lacedamon women as well as the AGOGE [i.e.: public education] of young Spartan males.
Through it all, Cartledge attempts an elucidation between what Sparta was "really" like and what he liked to call the Spartan "mirage" would have outsiders believe. The latter was how Sparta wished to project herself to all other Greek city states.
The present text is far easier to read than his SPARTA AND LACONIA (which was his doctoral dissertation presented in book form). Nevertheless, it would be prudent for the reader to have at least some familiarity with the Homeric epics as well as Herodotus and Thucydides. If you're able to grasp some of the inferences Cartledge makes, you'll be fine. If not, you might get lost.
This is a book that should be read by all graduate and undergraduate classrooms where the course is has in mind a focus on ancient Sparta. If Sparta is what you're interested in, then Cartledge is whom you should be reading. He really is that good.
Rating: 1
Summary: TOO ACADEMIC
Comment: This book is not for the general reader interested in Sparta or Greek history. It is much too academic, with numerous references to other Greek scholars and to their writings. I know Paul Cartledge is an expert in the subject, but because of the schoarly manner in which this book was written, I just could not finish it.
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Title: The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge ISBN: 1585674028 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy ISBN: 0195130677 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Plutarch on Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Richard J.A. Talbert, Talbert R J a, Plutarch ISBN: 0140444637 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A History of Sparta, 950-192 B.C. by William George Grieve Forrest ISBN: 0393004813 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1969 List Price(USD): $14.20 |
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Title: Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC by Paul Cartledge ISBN: 0415262763 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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