The Spartan Regime_ Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy - Paul Anthony Rahe
Prologue 5 the rhetorician Libanius could observe it in operation—it was at least in part because the works of Critias, Xenophon ...
6 Prologue Plato, and Aristotle.^25 His biography of Lycurgus is, moreover, an encomium of sorts, and his description of the law ...
7 Chapter 1 Paıdeía What gives rise to human misery is the contradiction found between our con- dition and our desires, between ...
8 Paıdeía the principles particular to the pólıs as a species of political community ex- plains why a city so rarely imitated wa ...
Paıdeía 9 ness. Instinctively, the Greeks recognized that the differentiation of interests inevitably fostered by trade and indu ...
10 Paıdeía oil, they exercised their bodies for beauty’s sake and passed their time in the pólıs. To take care of all the needs ...
Paıdeía 11 sengers. Moreover, the ordinary citizen was allowed the free use of the helots, horses, and hounds of his wealthier f ...
12 Paıdeía are told, out of fear. And the city’s allies elsewhere within the Peloponnesus were often disaffected and sometimes h ...
Paıdeía 13 commands all to say in harmony, with one voice from one mouth, that all the [city’s] nómoı are finely made by gods.” ...
14 Paıdeía Spartan boy who died when a fox stolen by his comrades from the stores of the men’s mess, which he was resolutely con ...
Paıdeía 15 depiction of the Spartiate way of life as grim and forbidding can scarcely do full justice to the place of honor whic ...
16 Paıdeía opment in order that his influence on the people may be beneficial and noble.^34 As the example set by Dante, Luther, ...
Paıdeía 17 The men with whom we made our journey, when we left Windy Erineos for the broad isle of Pelops. For the Heraclid king ...
18 Paıdeía vant by deliberately humiliating the helots—making them appear in public in a costume suggesting their kinship with a ...
Paıdeía 19 about the shrine of Artemis Orthia: one intent on running off with the cheese piled high on the altar, the other wiel ...
20 Paıdeía the young men, breathing out his life in the dust, and clasping his hands to a bloodied groin.” The Spartan king Leon ...
Paıdeía 21 the poet indicated in the priamel of his most famous work, there was only one trait truly worthy of celebration: I wo ...
22 Paıdeía rejection of Priam’s appeal to prudence and in his decision to meet Achilles alone in single combat apart from the fo ...
Paıdeía 23 This was a communal poetry fit for the education of citizen-soldiers who would be expected to spend their lives at ho ...
24 Paıdeía only to emerge at night to secure provisions by theft and to kill any helots found roaming about after curfew. The kr ...
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