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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Irad Malkin (Tel-Aviv University) , Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition ISBN: 9781009466080ISBN 10: 1009466089 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 13 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'…This is a wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating and scholarly book which makes an important contribution to the cognitive history of Greek antiquity. Ultimately, the judicious and disciplined analysis of myths as historical formulations of a Spartan self-concept represents a more fruitful approach to the Lakonian past than undue reliance on the refracted perceptions of Athenian writers.' Jonathan M. Hall, University of Chicago '… it has fallen to Malkin to pin down for the rest of us a large swath of that most enigmatic and elusive thing: the Spartan mind.' P. George Author InformationIRAD MALKIN is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University. He is also a laureate of the Israel Prize for History, a foreign member of the Athens Academy, and co-founder and co-editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review. His books include Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (1987), The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity (1998), A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (2011), and Drawing Lots: from Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece, with J. Blok (2024). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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