Equal contributors? Agesilaus and Lysander within Plutarch’s ‘ Spartan Cycle’
(2023)
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Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential (2020)
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In this chapter I propose a substantive usage of ‘intertextual Sparta’ as denoting the pervasively intertextual character of Plutarch’s understanding of Sparta. I examine the scope and definition of this ‘intertextual Sparta,’ and I distinguish it fr... Read More about Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential.
Out of the Archives: Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars (2017)
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This chapter provides a broader analysis of the reception of refugee scholars by Oxford’s academic community. Drawing heavily upon the SPSL’s archive and Oxford University’s own archives, Davies considers the cases of around a dozen refugee scholars... Read More about Out of the Archives: Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars.
The Cinadon Conspiracy as Literary Narrative and Historical Source (2017)
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Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community (2017)
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. All rights reserved. Spartan society possessed a number of idiosyncratic institutions and practices, elements of which were described using specifically Spartan vocabulary. This chapter considers the extent to which th... Read More about Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community.