The 'Spartan Mirage'

Location
Online
Date(s)
Thursday 9th July 2020 (17:00-18:00)
Registration URL
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDMxYjlmNGYtZDAzMS00MDljLTlkMTktODNiMWQ4YzVkZWNh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2281b4ec5e-763b-459f-a01c-5f202a64a270%22%2c%22IsBroadca
Description

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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Discussants:

A Spartan woman giving a shield to her son, by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (before 1826) ©Wikimedia Commons

A Spartan woman giving a shield to her son, by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (before 1826)  ©Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Jacques-Fran%C3%A7ois_Le_Barbier_-_A_Spartan_Woman_Giving_a_Shield_to_Her_Son.jpg 

Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies

University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0)115 951 4800
fax: +44 (0)115 951 4811
email: csps@nottingham.ac.uk