Lactor 21: Spartans - LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History

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Lactor 21: Spartans - LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient HistoryThis volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Sparta, with accompanying maps, illustrations, glossary, chronology and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources

but also the congruence between the sickly condition of the state and the mores of its citizens

and his plays are marked by an independence of thought

gives full scope to Plautus' inventiveness and richly comic language

Olympias and King Philip of Macedon

worse than wild beasts

Supported by a detailed contextualising introduction and companion website resources

He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy

to the Trojan War

illustrating Odysseus' cunning intelligence at its best as he gains acceptance in the court of the Phaeacians

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017)

It contains texts which cover an age long period

while in Iphigenia at Aulis