Sparta in Comparative Perspective, Ancient to Modern
Project Publications
In keeping with the project title, our publications span the chronological range from antiquity to the
early 21st century. For ease of reference, this listing separates them into publications whose main
focus is the comparative study of ancient Sparta and those focused mainly on Sparta’s reception in
modern (post-classical) times. However, several of the project publications span both approaches
and some deal with broader subjects and themes arising out of the project’s core focus.
Comparative studies of ancient Sparta and its reception in antiquity
Books
Hodkinson, Stephen, ed.
2009 Sparta: Comparative Approaches, Classical Press of Wales, Swansea.
Hodkinson, Stephen and Powell, Anton, eds.
2006 Sparta and War, Classical Press of Wales, Swansea.
Chapters and Articles
Harman, Rosie
2008 ‘Viewing, power and interpretation in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia’, in J. Pigon (ed.) The Children
of Herodotus, Newcastle, 69-91.
2009 ‘Viewing Spartans, viewing barbarians: visuality in Xenophon’s Lakedaimoniōn Politeia’, in S.
Hodkinson (ed.) Sparta: Comparative approaches, 361-82.
forthcoming ‘Looking at the Other: visual mediation and Greek identity in Xenophon’s Anabasis’, in
E. Almagor and J. Skinner (eds.) Ancient Ethnography: New approaches, London.
forthcoming ‘A spectacle of Greekness: panhellenism and the visual in Xenophon’s Agesilaus’, in F.
Hobden, G. Oliver and C. Tuplin (eds.) Xenophon: Ethical principle and historical enquiry,
Leiden.
Hodkinson, Stephen
2004 ‘Female property ownership and empowerment in classical and Hellenistic Sparta’, in T.
Figueira (ed.) Spartan Society, Swansea, 103-36.
2005 ‘The imaginary Spartan politeia;, in M.H. Hansen (ed.) The Imaginary Polis, Copenhagen,
222-81.
2006a ‘Introduction’, in S. Hodkinson and A. Powell (eds.) Sparta and War, vii-xxi.
2006b ‘Was classical Sparta a military society?’, in S. Hodkinson and A. Powell (eds.) Sparta and
War, 111-62.
2007a ‘The episode of Sphodrias as a source for Spartan social history’, in N.V. Sekunda (ed.)
Corolla Cosmo Rodewald, Gdansk. 43-65.
2008 ‘Spartiates, helots & the direction of the agrarian economy: towards an understanding of
helotage in comparative perspective’, in E. Dal Lago and C. Katsari, Slave Systems, Ancient
and Modern, Cambridge, 285-320.
2009a ‘Introduction’, in S. Hodkinson (ed.) Sparta: Comparative approaches, ix-xxxiii.
2009b ‘Was Sparta an exceptional polis?’, in S. Hodkinson (ed.) Sparta: Comparative approaches,
417-72.
2009c (with Mogens Herman Hansen) ‘Spartan exceptionalism? Continuing the debate’, in S.
Hodkinson (ed.) Sparta: Comparative approaches, 473-98.
Langerwerf, Lydia
2008 ‘The Messenians and their foolish courage in Pausanias’ book 4’, in J. Pigon (ed.) Children of
Herodotus: Greek and Roman historiography and related genres, Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, Newcastle, 186-205.
2009 ‘Aristomenes and Drimakos: the Messenian revolt in Pausanias’ Periegesis in comparative
perspective’, in S. Hodkinson (ed.) Sparta: Comparative approaches, 331-59.
Macgregor Morris, Ian
2007a ‘Shrines of the Mighty. Rediscovering the Battlefields of the Persian Wars’, in E. Hall et al.
(eds.), Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium, Oxford,
231-64.
Studies of Sparta’s reception in modernity and related broader topics
Books
Hodkinson, Stephen and Macgregor Morris, Ian, eds.
2012 Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History and Culture, Classical Press of Wales, Swansea.
Moore, James, Macgregor Morris, Ian and Bayliss, Andrew, eds.
2008 Reinventing History: The Enlightenment Origins of Ancient History, Institute of Historical
Research, London.
Chapters and Articles
Hodkinson, Stephen
2007b ‘Five words that shook the world: Plutarch, Lykourgos 16 and appropriations of Spartan
communal property ownership in eighteenth-century France’, in P. Cartledge, N. Birgalias
and K. Buraselis (eds.) The Contribution of Ancient Sparta to Political Thought and Practice,
Athens, 417-31.
2010 ‘Sparta and Nazi Germany in mid-20th-century British liberal and left-wing thought’, in A.
Powell and S. Hodkinson (eds.) Sparta: The body politic, Classical Press of Wales, Swansea,
297-342.
2011 (with Edith Hall) ‘Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the
1790s’, in E. Hall, R. Alston and J. McConnell (eds.), Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From
Hobbes to Hollywood, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 65-102.
2012 ‘Sparta and the Soviet Union in U.S. Cold War foreign policy and intelligence analysis’, in S.
Hodkinson and I. Macgregor Morris, eds., Sparta in Modern Thought, 343-92.
Langerwerf, Lydia
2011 ‘Universal Slave Revolts: C.L.R. James’ use of classical literature in The Black Jacobins’, R.
Alston, E. Hall and J. McConnell (eds.) Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to
Hollywood, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 65-102.
Macgregor Morris, Ian
2004 ‘The Paradigm of Democracy: Sparta in the Enlightenment’, in T. Figueira (ed.)
Spartan Society, Swansea 2004, 339-62.
2007b ‘The Refutation of Democracy? Socrates in the Enlightenment’, in M.B. Trapp (ed.) Socrates
from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, Aldershot, 209-27.
2008a (with James Moore), ‘History in Revolution? Approaches to the Ancient World in the Long
Eighteenth Century’, in J. Moore, I. Macgregor Morris and A. Bayliss (eds.) Reinventing
History: The Enlightenment Origins of Ancient History, 3-29.
2008b ‘Navigating the Grotesque; or, Rethinking Greek Historiography’, in J. Moore, I. Macgregor
Morris and A. Bayliss (eds.) Reinventing History, 247-90.
2009 ‘Liars, Eccentrics and Visionaries: Early Travellers to Sparta and the Birth of Laconian
Archaeology’, in W. Cavanagh et. al. (eds.) Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to
Premodern, British School at Athens, London, 387-95.
2010 ‘From Ancient Dreams to Modern Nightmares: Classical Revolutions in Enlightenment
Thought’, in T. Coignard, P. Davis, A.Montoya (eds.) Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment
and History, Paris, 301-23.
2012a (with Stephen Hodkinson) ‘Introduction’, in S. Hodkinson and I. Macgregor Morris (eds.)
Sparta in Modern Thought,
2012b ‘Lycurgus in late medieval political culture’, in S. Hodkinson and I. Macgregor Morris (eds.)
Sparta in Modern Thought, 1-42.
In press ‘Da sogni antichi a incubi moderni: Rivoluzioni classiche nel pensiero illuministico, in L.
Figurelli et al. (eds.) Antico e moderno, vol. 2, Palermo.
In press ‘Creating the Enlightenment Prince: Maurice Ashley’s translation of the Cyropaedia of
Xenophon’, in M.K. Zebrowski (ed.), Ancient Greece in Eighteenth-Century Britain (special
edition of the Annals of Scholarship).