The Spartan Regime_ Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy - Paul Anthony Rahe

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Introduction

1.Thuc. 4.1–23, 26–37.
2.Thuc. 4.38–40, 5.16–24.
3.Thuc. 5.24.2, 34.2.

4. Spartan polıteía: Hdt. 9.33–35 (esp. 34.1).
   5.For the word’s range of meanings and the manner in which it is deployed in the fifth and
   fourth centuries, see Ramón Martínez Fernández, “Politeia: Un Nombre para la democracia,” Hel­
   mantica 26 (1975): 357–75.
   6 .In this connection, see Seth Benardete, Herodotean Inquiries (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,
   1969), and Rosalind Thomas, Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion
   (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). For one part of the story, see Stanley Rosen,
   “Philosophy and Revolution,” in Rosen, The Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry (New York:
   Routledge, 1988), 27–55.
   7.Contest of regimes: cf. Thuc. 1.18.1, 68–69, 71.1–3, 132.4, 4.126.2, 5.31.6, 68.2. with 1.70,
   127.3, 2.16.2, 36–46, 3.55.3, 8.53.3, 74.3, 76.5, 89.2, 97.2, and see Leo Strauss, The City and Man
   (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964), 139–241; Clifford Orwin, The Humanity of Thucydides (Prince-
   ton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994); and Paul A. Rahe, “Thucydides’ Critique of Realpoli­
   tik,” Security Studies 5:2 (Winter 1995): 105–41, reprinted in Roots of Realism: Philosophical and
   Historical Dimensions, ed. Benjamin Frankel (London: Frank Cass, 1996), 105–41. Note also Thuc.
   1.115.2, 4.76.5, 5.4.3, 6.104.2, 7.55.2.


5. Ephorus as a historian of hegemonic regimes and their decay: Arnaldo Momigliano,
   “L’Egemonia tebana in Senofonte e in Eforo,” Atene e Roma 3rd ser., 2 (1935): 101–17, reprinted
   in Momigliano, Terza contributo alla storia degli studi classici e del mondo antico I (Rome: Edizioni
   di storia e di letteratura, 1966), 347–65; John M. Wickersham, Hegemony and Greek Historians
   (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), 119–50; Guido Schepens, “Historiographical Prob-
   lems in Ephorus,” in Historiographia antiqua: Commentationes Lovanienses in honorem W. Per­
   emans septuagenarii editae, ed. C. Prins (Louvain: Louvain University Press, 1977), 95–118;
   Giovanni Parmeggiani, “Dalla ktisis alla truphē: Una lettura di storia milesia in Eforo di Cuma
   (note a Eph. FGrHist 70 FF 127, 183),” in Sungraphé: Materiali e appunti per lo studio della storia e
   della letteratura antica, ed. Delfino Ambaglio (Como: New Press, 2000), II 83–92, and “Diodoro e
   la crisi delle egemonie nel IV secolo a.C.,” in Diodoro e l’altra Grecia: Macedonia, Occidente, Elle­
   nismo nella Biblioteca storica, ed. Cinzia Bearzot and Franca Landucci (Milan: Vita e Pensiero,
   2005), 67–103; and Paul Christesen, “Spartans and Scythians, a Meeting of Mirages: The Portrayal
   of the Lycurgan Politeia in Ephorus’ Histories,” in S B P, 211–63.

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