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Alexei Zadorozhny (Lecturer, Dpt. of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, Univ. of Liverpool))

piää esitelmän torstaina 14.11.2019 klo 16.15 (sh. A215, Metsätalo) aiheesta:


"Sparta in imperial Greek literature: between legend and allusion"

Sparta held special fascination for Greek writers of the imperial era. It may seem that Spartan material is mobilized mainly for the sake of antiquarian fantasies. On closer look, however, it becomes clear that authors such as Plutarch, Flavius Philostratus and others, use Sparta as a case study in political diachrony and the challenges of safeguarding one’s cultural identity; moreover, the mythohistoric Sparta is a richly allusive foil to the Roman Empire.
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