Equal contributors? Agesilaus and Lysander within Plutarch’s ‘ Spartan Cycle’
(2023)
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Sparta in Plutarch's Lives (2023)
Book
Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other to the popular conception of Sparta. Writing under the Roman Empire, at a time when the glory days of ancient Sparta were already l... Read More about Sparta in Plutarch's Lives.
Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential (2020)
Book Chapter
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.
Polyaenus 1.45.4: Lysander’s Heracles or Thasos’s? (2019)
Journal Article
Plutarch, Lysander, and a Disappearing Heraclid Reform (2018)
Journal Article
Out of the Archives: Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars (2017)
Book Chapter
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)
Book Chapter
Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community (2017)
Book Chapter
© 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.
‘Kalos kagathos’ and Scholarly Perceptions of Spartan Society (2013)
Journal Article
In the course of his exhaustive study regarding the development of the term kalos kagathos, Félix Bourriot has proposed a specifically Spartan usage of the term, with a narrow military meaning. Here, I critically examine his arguments for this Sparta... Read More about ‘Kalos kagathos’ and Scholarly Perceptions of Spartan Society.