Preface, Note to the Reader, Abbreviations, Glossary, Maps, Introduction, PART I. EARLY SPARTA, Introduction, 1. The Credibility of Early Spartan History, PART II. POWER AND GOVERNMENT AT SPARTA, Introduction, 2. The Government of Classical Sparta, 3. Trials at Sparta, PART III. THE SPARTIATE WORLD, Introduction, 4. Spartiate Landownership and Inheritance, 5. Dining Groups, Marriage, Homosexuality, 6. Social Order and the Conflict of Values in Classical Sparta, 7. Spartan Wives: Liberation or Licence?, 8. Religion in Public Life, PART IV. PERIOECI AND HELOTS, Introduction, 9. Perioecic Society, 10. The Helot Threat, 11. The Obligations of Helots, PART V. SPARTA AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD, Introduction, 12. Sparta's 'Foreign Policy', 13. The Origins and Organisation of the Peloponnesian League, PART VI. SPARTAN DECLINE, Introduction, 14. The Decline of Sparta, Intellectual Chronology, Guide to Further Reading, Bibliography, Index
