Foreword
Anthony S. Papadimitriou
President
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Introduction
Dr. Nikolaos Kaltsas, Director, National Archaeological
Museum, Greece, and curator of the exhibition
“Athens-Sparta”
CHAPTER 1
The Amyklaion Revisited: New Observations on a Laconian Sanctuary of Apollo
Dr. Stavros Vlizos, Archaeologist, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
CHAPTER 2
An Archaic Head in the Archaeological Museum of Sparta
Dr. Georgia Kokkorou-Alevras, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece
CHAPTER 3
Spartan Self-Presentation in the Panhellenic Sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia in the Classical Period
Dr. Olga Palagia, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece
CHAPTER 4
Disiecta Membra: Early Terracotta Images on the Athenian Acropolis
Dr. Aliki Moustaka, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
CHAPTER 5
‘Thalassa, Thalassa!’ The Spartans and the Sea?
Dr. Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
CHAPTER 6
Early Hellenistic Sparta: Changing Modes of Interaction with the Wider World?
Dr. Graham Shipley, Professor of Ancient History, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
CHAPTER 7
Plutarch’s Sparta: Lieux de mémoire, trous de mémoire
Dr. Richard Talbert, Kenan Professor of History and Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America
CHAPTER 8
Democracy, Knowledge, and Public Action in Classical Athens
Dr. Josiah Ober, Professor of Classics and Political Science; Constantinos Mitsotakis Chair, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, California, United States of America
CHAPTER 9
The Early Greek Polis: From Homer to “Lycurgan” Sparta and “Solonian” Athens
Dr. Kurt A. Raalaub, David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History; Chair, Program in Ancient Studies; Brown University, Rhode Island, United States of America
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