The Spartans
By: L. F. Fitzhardinge.
Series: Ancient peoples and places ;; v. 95
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Sparta (Extinct city) -- Antiquities; Greece -- Antiquities; Sparta (Extinct city) -- History
Description: The image of Sparta as a repressive warrior society that shunned the arts has been the accepted view well into our own century. Drawing on contemporary written evidence and archaeological finds, L.F. Fitzhardinge portrays a Sparta quite different from the stereotype. The city is revealed as the creator of a fine and distinctive tradition in ceramics, bronzes, statuettes and many other arts.--[book cover].
Notes: Bibliography: p. 171-175.
Includes index.