Sparta Lactor Sourcebooks In Ancient History 21 Second Edition 2nd Edition M G L Cooley by M. G. L. Cooley 9781009382779, 1009382772 instant download after payment.

This is, to my knowledge, the first ever full-scale sourcebook on Sparta.
By filling that considerable and long-standing gap the LACTOR committee hopes to make easier the teaching of topics on Sparta on school and university syllabuses. This volume has long been promised, and does now finally appear in time for the latest change to UK A-levels.
As an absolute neodamodes in studying Sparta I have been greatly dependent on the help offered to me by the two kings and some of the ephors of Spartan studies, (if they will excuse my referring to them in this way!). Professor Paul Cartledge saved me from a huge number of errors, small and great, by his careful reading of a draft, and his comments have greatly improved the text and notes at many points. Stephen Hodkinson’s advice was instrumental in forming the structure of the volume; he provided comments on several sections and wrote the introduction to Spartan Epigraphy; I have also reused, with his kind permission, some of the notes he has previously written for schoolteachers. Maria Pretzler will also recognize many of her notes written for JACT incorporated into this volume. Bill Cavanagh provided the notes on Spartan Archaeology (an area which goes way beyond my understanding) and two of the maps. Paul Christesen has generously shared some of his current research on Sparta, even to the point of allowing a new interpretation of an important text to appear here in advance of its full publication. Naturally, though, none of these experts are to be held in any way responsible for the errors and faults that remain.
I am also very grateful to a number of people who have helped translate the texts included here. Brian Wilson translated all the main prose texts: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lakedaimonians, and Plutarch’s Life of Lykourgos. It has been a great pleasure working with him on various LACTORs over the years. Ken Hughes translated Tyrtaios, Alkman and Aristophanes...