Spartan Society

Thomas J. Figueira was born on Broadway in Manhattan in 1948 and educated in the public schools of New York City and Poughkeepsie, New York. He received his Ph.D in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. He is the author of Aegina (1981), Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization (1991), Excursions in Epichoric History (1993), The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire (1998), co-author of Wisdom from the Ancients (2001), and co-editor of Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (1985). He has written numerous articles, chapters, contributions, and reviews.

• Introduction - Thomas J. Figueira1. Snatching and Keeping: The Motif of Taking in Spartan Culture - Stefan Link2. Suicide in Spartan Society - Ephraim David3. The Nature of the Spartan Kleros - Thomas J. Figueira4. The Hyakinthia of Sparta - Nicolas Richer5. Female Property Ownership and Empowerment in Classical and Hellenistic Sparta - Stephen Hodkinson6. The Women of Sparta - and of Other Greek Cities - at War - Anton Powell7. Women's Way of Death: Fatal Childbirth or Hierai? Commemorative Stones at Sparta and Plutarch, Lycurgus, 27.3 - Pierre Brulé and Laurent Piolot Translated by Anton Powell8. The Logic of Terror: Thucydides, Spartan Duplicity and an Improbable Massacre - Annalisa Paradiso9. The Clandestine Massacre of the Helots (Thucydides 4.80) - David Harvey10. Orestes at Sparta: The Political Significance of the Grave of the Hero - Klaus-Wilhelm Welwei11. Xenophon's Sons in Sparta? Perspectives on Xenoi in the Spartan Upbringing - Noreen Humble12. Xenophon, Artemis and Scillus - Christopher Tuplin13. Aristomenes of Messenia and His Talismanic Shield - Daniel Ogden14. Utopia on the Eurotas: Economic Aspects of the Spartan Mirage - Paul Christesen15. The Paradigm of Democracy: Sparta in Enlightenment Thought - Ian Macgregor Morris16. Loyalty and Liberty: Thermopylae in Western Imagination - Emma CloughIndex