Table of Contents

Contents — Preface — Maps — PART I HELLENISTIC SPARTA (BY PAUL CARTLEDGE) — 1 In the shadow of empire: Mantinea to Chaeronea — 2 Resistance to Macedon: the revolt of Agis III — 3 The new Hellenism of Areus I — 4 Reform - or revolution? Agis IV and Cleomenes III — 5 Sparta between Achaea and Rome: the rule of Nabis — 6 Sparta from Achaea to Rome (188-146 BC) — PART II ROMAN SPARTA (BY ANTONY SPAWFORTH) — 7 Sparta between sympolity and municipality — 8 Sparta in the Greek renaissance — 9 Pagans and Christians: Sparta in late antiquity — 10 The Roman city and its territory — 11 Local government I: machinery and functions — 12 Local government II: the social and economic base — 13 High culture and agonistic festivals — 14 The image of tradition — 15 Epilogue: Sparta from late antiquity to the Middle Ages APPENDICES — I The monuments of Roman Sparta — II Catalogues of magistrates — III Hereditary tendencies in the Curial Class — IV Foreign agonistai at Sparta — Notes — Bibliographical appendix — Bibliographicals addenda to the second edition — Bibliography — Abbreviations — General index.