Spartan Society (Hardcover, New)

This is the latest volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen new papers; among the authors are most of the world's leading authorities on the history of Sparta. There are particular concentrations of papers on Spartan women; the economy of Sparta; helots and Messenians; Xenophon and Sparta. Thomas J.Figueira is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, and is the author of several authoritative books on the political economy of ancient Greece.