Sparta and the Commemoration of War 1st edition by Matthew A. Sears 1009021303 9781009021302

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ISBN-10 :  1009021303 

ISBN-13 :  9781009021302

Author :  Matthew A. Sears 

The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspiring soldiers with rousing verse in the seventh century BCE to inscriptions celebrating the 300’s last stand at Thermopylae, and from Spartan imperialists posing as liberators during the Peloponnesian War to the modern reception of the Spartan as a brave warrior defending the “West”, Sparta has had an outsized role in how warfare is framed and remembered. This image has also been distorted by the Spartans themselves and their later interpreters. While debates continue to rage about the appropriateness of monuments to supposed war heroes in our civic squares, this authoritative and engaging book suggests that how the Spartans commemorated their military past, and how this shaped their military future, has perhaps never been more pertinent.

Sparta and the Commemoration of War 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Memory and Mirage
Chapter 2 Warrior Poets
Chapter 3 Few against Many
Chapter 4 The Freedom of the Greeks
Chapter 5 Remembering Sparta’s Other Liberators
Chapter 6 Agesilaus, First King of Greece
Chapter 7 From Thermopylae to 300

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