Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Foreword by the editor
Introduction
1. Sixth-century Lakonian vase-painting. Continuities and discontinuities with the 'lykourgan' ethos
2. Mendacity and Sparta's use of the visual
3. Herodotus, the Spartan revolution and the logic of extremes
4. Information from Sparta: a trap for Thucydides?
5. 'One little skytale': Xenophon, truth-telling in his major works, and Spartan imperialism
6. Plato and Sparta: modes of rule and of non-rational persuasion in the Laws
7. Divination, royalty and insecurity in Classical Sparta
8. Athens' difficulty, Sparta's opportunity: Causation and the Peloponnesian War
9. Why did Sparta not destroy Athens in 404, or in 403 BC?
10. Athens as New Sparta? Lakonism and the Athenian revolution of 404-3 BC
11. The women of Sparta - and of other Greek cities - at war
12. Spartan women assertive in politics? Plutarch's Lives of Agis and Kleomenes
13. Spartan education
14. Sparta and the imperial schools of Britain: Comparisons
Bibliography
Index of passages discussed
General Index

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