Sparta in Modern Thought

Stephen Hodkinson is an internationally recognised authority on Sparta and the founder of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies. Author of numerous influential studies on Greek history, his Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (2000) is the leading work in its field. He has been made an Honorary Citizen of modern Sparta for his contributions to the global understanding of Spartan history. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham.Ian Macgregor Morris is Senior Lecturer at the University of Salzburg. He has co-edited with Stephen Hodkinson Sparta in Modern Thought (2010). He's the author of Leonidas: Hero of Thermopylae (2003) and has published numerous articles on the reception of Sparta.

• Introduction (Stephen Hodkinson and Ian Macgregor Morris) Part I. Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1. The lode-star of chivalry: Sparta and Spartans in the medieval imagination (Ian Macgregor Morris) 2. Sparta and Rome in early modern thought: a comparative approach (Kostas Vlassopoulos) Part II. Enlightenment to Post-Revolutionary France 3. Sparta and the French Enlightenment (Haydn Mason) 4. Spartans and savages: mirage and myth in eighteenth-century France (Michael Winston) 5. Spartan land tenure and French socialism from Mably to Fustel de Coulanges (Paul Christesen) Part III. Germany: From Pre-unification to National Socialism 6. Spartanic verses: the role of Sparta in German literary hellenism around 1800 (Uta Degner) 7. The Spartan tradition in Germany, 1870-1945 (Volker Losemann) 8. The role of Sparta in the educational ideology of the Adolf Hitler Schools (Helen Roche) Part IV. Cold War and Contemporary Political and Popular Culture 9. Sparta and the Soviet Union in U.S. Cold War foreign policy and intelligence analysis (Stephen Hodkinson) 10. The positive portrayal of Sparta in late twentieth-century fiction (Lynn Fotheringham) 11. "This is Cake-Town!": 300 (2006) and the death of allegory (Gideon Nisbet)

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