Table of Contents

Introductory Note Anton Powell
Foreword Paul Cartledge
1 Sparta in Pericles’ Funeral Oration Paula Debnar
2 Athens, Sparta, and the t???? of deliberation Ellen Millender
3 Athens as New Sparta? Lakonism and the Athenian revolution of 404–3 BC Anton Powell
4 Viewing Sparta through Athenian engagement with art and architecture Michael Scott
5 Euripides, Sparta and the self-definition of Athens Edith Hall
6 Sparta and Spartans in Old Comedy Ralph M. Rosen
7 Imagined superpowers: Isocrates’ opposition of Athens and Sparta Carol Atack
8 Spartan echoes in Plato’s Republic Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
9 Aristotle’s critique of Spartan imperialism Malcolm Schofield
Index

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This book explores how Athenians – ordinary citizens as well as writers and politicians – thought about Sparta's superiority.

About the Author

Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, new edition 2002), Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005), Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009), and Democracy: A Life (2016). Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, new edition 2002), Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005), Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009), and Democracy: A Life (2016).

Reviews

This impressive volume complements its congeners.
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