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Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential (2020)
Book Chapter
Davies, P. (2020). Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential. In T. Schmidt, M. Vamvouri, & R. Hirsch-Luipold (Eds.), The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch (429-439). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004427860_035

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)
Book Chapter
Davies, P. (2017). Out of the Archives: Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars. In S. Crawford, K. Ulmschneider, & J. Elsner (Eds.), Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 (77-95). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199687558.003.0005

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.

Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community (2017)
Book Chapter
Davies, P. (2017). Equality and Distinction within the Spartiate Community. In A. Powell (Ed.), A Companion to Sparta (480-499). Malden, MA: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119072379.ch18

© 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
Davies, P. (2013). ‘Kalos kagathos’ and Scholarly Perceptions of Spartan Society. Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 62(3), 259-279. https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2013-0013

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.