Spartan society

the long version

"This is the fifth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Thomas J. Figueira is here the editor of 16 papers; 15 are new, the other is newly translated from the French." "Among the authors are most of the world's leading authorities on the history of Sparta. There are particular concentrations of papers of Spartan women, the economy of Sparta, helots and Messenians, Xenophon and Sparta, and modern reception of Sparta."--BOOK JACKET.