TY - BOOK AU - Beck-Schachter,Aaron AU - Beck-Schachter,Aaron J. AU - Figueira,Thomas AU - Hershkowitz,Aaron TI - Myth, Text, and History at Sparta T2 - Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity SN - 9781463205959 U1 - 938/.9 PY - 2016///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Politeia and Lakōnika in Spartan Historiography --; The Lysandreia --; Getting Carried Away With Theseus: The Evolution And Partisan Use Of The Athenian Abduction Of Spartan Helen --; General Index --; Index Locorum; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Three studies that offer close readings concerning the interaction of the source material on Spartan history with the unfolding of actual historical events. These contributions take the position that not only political, but also social, policies at Sparta, as well as the historical actors giving them shape, were intensely─and to an unusual degree─influenced by myth, tradition, and popular memory about the Laconian past UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463237011 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463237011 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463237011/original ER -