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On Sparta

by Plutarch Book 11 in the Penguin Classics: Ancient World series.

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This volume presents ancient writing on Sparta, especially Xenophon and Plutarch, with attention to law, education, discipline, kingship and civic identity. The book gives readers the idealised and critical traditions through which Sparta became a model of austerity, military order and political difference in Greek thought.

Historical Periods

Classical Greece480–323 BCE Spartac. 700–371 BCE Classical Historiography500 BCE–250 CE

Genres

Classical Literature

Historical people

Xenophon431 BCE–355 BCE Plutarchc. 46–after 119 CE

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