Spartan Education
Subtitle: Youth and Society in the Classical Period
Contributors: Emma Stafford (Translator); P. J. Shaw (Translator); Anton Powell (Translator)
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781905125074
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; History; History - General History; Ancient - Greece; Education; Education and state; Education, Greek; Greece; Sparta (Extinct city)
Description: Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and obscure alike - for Spartan education. He deploys his familiar combination of good judgement and uncompromising recognition of the limits to our knowledge, while drawing at times on aspects of French structuralism. This book is likely to become the definitive reference on its subject, while also informing and provoking the future work of others. Sparta was admitted by Greeks generally, even by its Athenian enemies, to be the School of Hellas. Ducat's work is thus a major contribution to our understanding of Greek ideas, and indeed to the history of education. -- from dust jacket.