Hellenistic and Roman Sparta

Contents -- Preface -- Maps -- PART I HELLENISTIC SPARTA (BY PAUL CARTLEDGE) -- 1 In the shadow of empire: Mantinea to Chaeronea -- 2 Resistance to Macedon: the revolt of Agis III -- 3 The new Hellenism of Areus I -- 4 Reform - or revolution? Agis IV and Cleomenes III -- 5 Sparta between Achaea and Rome: the rule of Nabis -- 6 Sparta from Achaea to Rome (188-146 BC) -- PART II ROMAN SPARTA (BY ANTONY SPAWFORTH) -- 7 Sparta between sympolity and municipality -- 8 Sparta in the Greek renaissance -- 9 Pagans and Christians: Sparta in late antiquity -- 10 The Roman city and its territory -- 11 Local government I: machinery and functions -- 12 Local government II: the social and economic base -- 13 High culture and agonistic festivals -- 14 The image of tradition -- 15 Epilogue: Sparta from late antiquity to the Middle Ages APPENDICES -- I The monuments of Roman Sparta -- II Catalogues of magistrates -- III Hereditary tendencies in the Curial Class -- IV Foreign agonistai at Sparta -- Notes -- Bibliographical appendix -- Bibliographicals addenda to the second edition -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- General index.