The Shadow of Sparta edited by Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell
English | May 12, 1994 | ISBN: 0415104130, 0415642957 | True EPUB/PDF | 408 pages | 1/8.2 MB
In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions. As interest has grown in the self-images projected by this most secretive of Greek cities, increasing attention has focused on how individual Greek writers from other states reacted to information, or disinformation about Sparta.
