An Archaeology of Ancient Sparta with Reference to Laconia and Messenia

Cavanagh, William

doi:10.1002/9781119072379.ch3

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“…This is largely ignored in scholarship. Indeed, the evidence from Corinth (Tzonou 2021), Athens (Osborne 2021) and, most famously, Sparta (Cavanagh 2018), suggests that even the most influential Archaic-period centres might not have been urbanised, consisting instead of village clusters. It is only towards the end of the Archaic period (c. 480 BC) that evidence of settlement nucleation can be recognised at these and a handful of other sites (Kõiv 2013: 164).…”

Section: Ancient Greek 'Cities' and Western Thessalian Hillfortsmentioning

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‘Princely seats’ and Thessalian hillforts: pre-urban Greece and the diffusion of urbanism in Early Iron Age Europe

Rönnlund

2024

Antiquity

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The origins of Iron Age urbanism in temperate Europe were long assumed to lie in Archaic Greece. Recent studies, however, argue for an independent development of Hallstatt mega-sites. This article focuses on developments in Western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The author characterises the Archaic settlement system of the region as one of lowland villages and fortified hilltop sites, the latter identified not as settlements but refuges. It is argued that cities were rare in Greece prior to the Hellenistic period so its settlements could not have served as the model for urban temperate Europe. Consequently, the social and political development of Greece and temperate Europe followed different trajectories.

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‘Princely seats’ and Thessalian hillforts: pre-urban Greece and the diffusion of urbanism in Early Iron Age Europe

Rönnlund

2024

Antiquity

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“…Aristotle's Politics (1273a 9-13) indicates that around the year 330 BC the Assembly could only opine on motions presented by the ephors or the gerontes. Richer (1998,(356)(357)(358)(359)(360)(361)(362)(363)(364)(365)(366) surmises that this meant an increase in the prerogatives of the gerousia between 346 (or rather 371) and 330 BC, suggesting that citizens' rights were limited in the year 371-360 owing to Agesilaus, in order to make it impossible for the apella to take decisions that would go against the interest of the State.…”

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Sparta: History, State and Society

2022

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Richly illustrated with citations from ancient authors, the book Sparta introduces the reader to the universe of a polis which in the fifth and fourth century BC was a Greek superpower. Part I describes Sparta’s political institutions and mechanisms of governance, the structure of its society, the family, education, lifestyle and, naturally, the organization of the Spartan army and military life. Part II is an outline of the history of Sparta, and Greece, in the two centuries when the polis was at the peak of its influence, extending also into the period of its waning. The book closes with an analysis of ‘imaginary Sparta’ and the ways the Spartan legend has been employed in the shaping of various identities from the early modern era to the present.

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Schole. Czas wolny w Sparcie epoki klasycznej

Rajewicz¹

2022

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In collective memory, the image of Sparta is that of a military encampment. In a world where the citizens devoted their lives to war and other needs of the state, there was no place for leisure. The author calls into question this mythologised perception, adopting a new perspective: instead of focusing, following the ancient authors, on the state and its needs, he pays special attention to the private sphere, which is more befitting for a reflection on the titular schole. He demonstrates that the life of Spartans might have resembled life in a military camp only during the period of the famed state education. Once the education was complete, the citizens had abundant leisure time to engage in various activities, including: family life, extramarital unions, pederasty, entertainment during feasts, sport, hunting, and horse and hound breeding.

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An Archaeology of Ancient Sparta with Reference to Laconia and Messenia

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

‘Princely seats’ and Thessalian hillforts: pre-urban Greece and the diffusion of urbanism in Early Iron Age Europe

‘Princely seats’ and Thessalian hillforts: pre-urban Greece and the diffusion of urbanism in Early Iron Age Europe

Sparta: History, State and Society

Schole. Czas wolny w Sparcie epoki klasycznej

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