Bibliography
Bibliographical Abbreviations BA = Best of the Achaeans, Nagy 1979/1999. DELG. See Chantraine 1968-1980. DELL. See Ernout and Meillet 1959 GP = Greek Mythology and Poetics, Nagy 1990b. HC = Homer the Classic,… Read more
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Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments This volume originates from a workshop held at Harvard University on March 16-17, 2001. The majority of the essays in this book were there presented for the first time, in some cases in a significantly different form from that assumed in the end. In an attempt… Read more
Introduction. Chapter 1. S. E. Alcock, Researching the Helots: Details, Methodologies, Agencies
[In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere… Read more
Chapter 2. Paul Cartledge, Raising Hell? The Helot Mirage—A Personal Review
Chapter 2. Raising hell? The Helot Mirage—a personal review [1] Paul Cartledge The first instalment of Larry Gonick’s idiosyncratic and insufficiently known Cartoon History of the Universe, entitled “From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great”, was published in the dynamic… Read more
Part I. Helotic Histories. Chapter 3. Hans van Wees, Conquerors and Serfs: Wars of Conquest and Forced Labour in Archaic Greece
Chapter 3. Conquerors and Serfs: Wars of Conquest and Forced Labour in Archaic Greece Hans van Wees In many parts of the Greek world, the typical agricultural labourer was neither a free man nor a slave, but something in between. The Greeks, for once, did not… Read more
Chapter 4. Nigel M. Kennell, Agreste genus: Helots in Hellenistic Laconia
Chapter 4. Agreste genus: Helots in Hellenistic Laconia Nigel M. Kennell In the aftermath of the battle of Leuctra, Sparta lost a third of its territory, comprising over half its arable land, and the majority of its helots. While their fellows west of Taygetus soon established… Read more
Part II. Ideologies. Chapter 5. Nino Luraghi, The Imaginary Conquest of the Helots
Chapter 5. The imaginary conquest of the Helots Nino Luraghi In a previous paper, I have questioned the idea that the Helots who worked the land of the Spartiates in Laconia and Messenia were the descendants of free populations who had occupied those areas before the… Read more
Chapter 6. Jonathan M. Hall, The Dorianization of the Messenians
Chapter 6. The Dorianization of the Messenians Jonathan M. Hall It is an axiom of recent scholarship that the primordial and essential identity proclaimed by an ethnic group may often be a recent and illusory fiction, forged in the context of—and in response to—precise historical circumstances,… Read more
16. Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Constructing Legitimacy: The Ptolemaic Familiengruppe as a Means of Self-Definition in Posidippus’ Hippika
16. Constructing Legitimacy: The Ptolemaic Familiengruppe as a Means of Self-Definition in Posidippus’ Hippika [1] Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Scholarly interest in the Hellenistic epigram has recently soared, and important studies have been published on its specific characteristics, context,… Read more
17. Nassos Papalexandrou, Reading as Seeing: P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 and Greek Art
17. Reading as Seeing: P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 and Greek Art Nassos Papalexandrou, University of Texas at Austin O Queen of Egypt with the lovely brow—To you—thou smilest and to me it seemsThe earth has owned but one such smile; ’twas thouVisitedst Lionardo… Read more