Название: Sparta and the Commemoration of War
Автор: Matthew A Sears
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316519457
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 295
Размер: 4,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.