Contents
Introduction - Stephen Hodkinson
and Ian Macgregor Morris
Part I. Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1. The lode-star of chivalry: Sparta and Spartans in the medieval
imagination - Ian Macgregor Morris
2. Sparta and Rome in early
modern thought: a comparative approach - Kostas Vlassopoulos
Part
II. Enlightenment
to Post-Revolutionary France
3. Sparta and the French Enlightenment
- Haydn Mason
4. Spartans and savages: mirage and myth in eighteenth-century
France - Michael Winston
5. Spartan land tenure and French socialism
from Mably to Fustel de Coulanges - Paul Christesen
Part III. Germany:
From Pre-unification to National Socialism
6. Spartanic verses:
the role of Sparta in German literary hellenism around 1800 - Uta
Degner
7. The Spartan tradition in Germany, 1870-1945 - Volker Losemann
8. The role of Sparta in the educational ideology of the Adolf
Hitler Schools - Helen Roche
Part IV. Cold War and Contemporary
Political
and Popular Culture
9. Sparta and the Soviet Union in U.S. Cold
War foreign policy and intelligence analysis - Stephen Hodkinson
10.
The positive portrayal of Sparta in late twentieth-century fiction
- Lynn Fotheringham
11. “This is Cake-Town!”: 300 (2006) and the death of allegory - Gideon
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