Spartan Education Youth and Society in the Classical Period

This book systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources--famous and obscure alike--for Spartan education. The author deploys his familiar combination of good judgment and uncompromising recognition of the limits to our knowledge, while drawing at times on aspects of French structuralism. This book is likely to become the definitive reference on its subject, while also informing and provoking the future work of others. Sparta was admitted by Greeks generally, even by its Athenian enemies, to be the School of Hellas. Ducat's work is thus a major contribution to our understanding of Greek ideas, and indeed to the history of education.Ducat, Jean is the author of 'Spartan Education Youth and Society in the Classical Period', published 2006 under ISBN 9781905125074 and ISBN 1905125070.