Sparta : new perspectives /

"This volume represents the fruits of the international conference on Spartan history held in Hay-on-Wye on 8-10 September 1997, jointly organised by the University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History and by the University of Manchester Ancient History Seminar"--P. ix.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Stephen Hodkinson. PART I: SPARTIATE INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY. Tyrtaeus'Eunomia: Nothing to do with the Great Rhetra / Hans van Wees (University College London) -- Perspectives on Spartan education in the classical period / Jean Ducat (Metz), Translated by Emma Stafford -- Admission to the syssitia in fifth-century Sparta / H.W. Singor (University of Leiden) -- Aidos at Sparta / Nicolas Richer (University of Paris 1 -- Sorbonne), Translated by Emma Stafford -- Sparta's kosmos of silence / Ephraim David (University of Haifa). PART II: SPARTANS AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD. An agonistic culture? Athletic competition in archaic and classical Spartan society / Stephen Hodkinson (University of Manchester) -- From Perioikoi to Poleis: The Laconian cities in the late hellenistic period / Nigel Kennell (Memorial University of Newfoundland)-- The evolution of the Messenian identity / Thomas Figueira (Rutgers University)-- From Sparta to Taras: Nomima, ktiseis and relationships between colony and mother city / Massimo Nafissi (University of Perugia)-- Olympiad chronography and 'Early' Spartan history / P.-J. Shaw (University of Wales Cardiff). Part III: REPRESENTSATIONS OF SPARTAN SOCIETY. The Socratics' Sparta and Rousseau's / Paul Cartledge (Clare College, Cambridge) -- Sōphrosynē and the Spartans in Xenophon / Noreen Humble (University of Manchester) -- Athenian ideology and the empowered Spartan woman / Ellen.Greenstein Millender (university of Iowa) -- Spartan women assertive in politics? Plutarch's Lives of Agis and Kleomenes / Anton Powell (University of Wales