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Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern. Proceedings of the Conference held in Sparta, organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Nottingham, the Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the 5th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities 17-20 March 2005

edited by W.G. Cavanagh, C. Gallou and M. Georgiadis

This conference celebrated 100 years since the beginning of work in Laconia by the British School at Athens. It aimed to carry forward from that original work a broad spirit of enquiry - the research of those early scholars ranged over every aspect of the archaeology, epigraphy, history, architecture and art history of the region. What has changed over the century since is the even greater internationalisation of the scholarly enterprise, and the great contribution made today by the members of the Greek Archaeological Service. Their energetic contribution to the archaeology of the region is underlined by the number of papers in this volume written them.

The papers published here have been arranged chronologically and they cover an immense span from the Palaeolithic to recent times. There are, however, other disciplinary and thematic connections, which form junctures across the chronological order: material culture, religion and belief, cultural identity, epigraphy, topography, architectural studies, iconography, historiography, anthropology, the economy and the history of Laconia. The very variety of these themes is a tribute to the broad tradition of enquiry which those pioneering scholars of the early 20th century - British, Greek and other nationalities - brought to the study of Sparta and Laconia. As Paul Cartledge stresses in his introduction to the volume, the different images of Sparta have deeply influenced the European tradition. Sparta lives in the mind's eye and is constantly redrawn in the light of new discoveries and new insights. The papers presented here provide both. 455p, 397 figs, 6 tbls, 2 col pls (BSA Studies 16, British School at Athens 2009)

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"This volume is an epitome of the 100 years of scholarly endeavour it seeks to commemorate."

Daniel R. Stewart
Antiquity vol. 83 (December 2009)

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Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern. Proceedings of the Conference held in Sparta, organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Nottingham, the Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the 5th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities 17-20 March 2005

edited by W.G. Cavanagh, C. Gallou and M. Georgiadis

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