Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta

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From c.550 BC until her defeat on the battle of Leuktra in 371 BC, Sparta was once a dominant force within the Greek world. This has traditionally ben explained by Sparta’s egalitarian and militaristic society. Hodgkinson’s accessible and detailed observe of Sparta’s ruling classes shows how a new citizen organisation was once established within the 6th and 5th centuries BC in accordance with the good discrepancy between wealthy and poor in Sparta which had caused a succession of civil wars. The book first discusses what Sparta ideally represented to the classical and up to date worlds before bearing in mind the realities of Spartan landownership and private property and wealth. Hodgkinson demonstrates that severe inequality never left Sparta but as a substitute contributed to the rapid decline within the state’s fortunes following the defeat of 371 BC.

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