Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521520249
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; History; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / General; History / Ancient / Greece; Sparta (Extinct city)--Colonies; Ancient - General
First sentence: The founding of Sparta, Pindar's 'colony of the Dorians', and especially the legitimation of its presence in the Peloponnese are topics rich in mythological articulations.