Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Freface vii
4. Note to the Reader ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Glossary xiv
7. Maps xvii
8. Introduction 1
9. PART I Early Sparta
10. Introduction 19
11. 1 The Credibility of Early Spartan History 26
12. PART II Power and Government at Sparta
13. Introduction 43
14. 2 The Government of Classical Sparta 49
15. 3 Trials at Sparta 69
16. PART III The Spartiate World
17. Introduction 79
18. 4 Spartiate Landownership and Inheritance 86
19. 5 Dining Groups, Marriage, Homosexuality 90
20. 6 Social Order and the Conflict of Values in Classical Sparta 104
21. 7 Spartan Wives: Liberation or Licence? 131
22. 8 Religion in Public Life 161
23. PART IV Perioeci and Helots
24. Introduction 175
25. 9 Perioecic Society 182
26. 10 The Helot Threat 190
27. 11 The Obligations of Helots 196
28. PART V Sparta and the Outside World
29. Introduction 213
30. 12 Sparta’s ‘Foreign Policy’ 218
31. 13 The Origins and Organisation of the Peloponnesian League 223
32. PART VI Spartan Decline
33. Introduction 231
34. 14 The Decline of Sparta 236
35. Intellectual Chronology 258
36. Guide to Further Reading 260
37. Bibliography 263
38. Index 268