Join leading academics for a discussion about the ‘Spartan Mirage’
‘Sparta’ and ‘Spartans’ conjure up a number of conventional images and associations. A key issue for historians is seeking to understand how much the image of Sparta which we receive from ancient authors (usually Athenian) simplifies, idealises, or distorts the historical reality. How much of what we know about Sparta is mirage?
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A Spartan woman giving a shield to her son, by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (before 1826) ©Wikimedia Commons
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