Spartan Tradition in European Thought

Zusatztext Overwhelming in terms of breadth of scholarship and clarity of exposition ... a fitting complement to that tradition of excellence which ancient Sparta demanded of her citizen-soldiers. Informationen zum Autor Deceased Klappentext Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato! Aristotle! Plutarch! and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy! the France of the Philosophes! Whig England! and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta! describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens! makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate! and indicates Sparta's role--over twenty-five centuries--in the intellectual history of Europe. Overwhelming in terms of breadth of scholarship and clarity of exposition ... a fitting complement to that tradition of excellence which ancient Sparta demanded of her citizen-soldiers. Journal of Modern History Zusammenfassung Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes, Whig England, and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate, and indicates Sparta's role over twenty-five centuries in the intellectual history of Europe.

Product details

• Authors: E. Rawson, Elizabeth Rawson, Rawson Elizabeth
• Assisted by: Sir Keith Thomas (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.1991
• EAN: 9780198147336
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814733-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Travel > Travel guides > Europe; History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE