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Sparta - Pierre Roussel: Sparte. Pp. 216; 16 plates. Paris: de Boccard, 1939. Paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

A. R. W. Harrison
Affiliation:
Morton College, Oxford.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1940

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1 Sparta, by Helmut Berve. The following sentence may give some faint aroma of its quality. ‘Lange Zeit hatte in Sparta ein echter und großer Adelswille der sich profanierenden, demokratisierenden, materialisierenden Griechenwelt Trotz geboten, aber es schließlich nur noch vermocht, indem er selbst in die niedere Arena hinabstieg, sich ihrer Kampfmethoden bediente und dabei unvermeidlich von ihrem bislang peinlich ferngehaltenen Geiste angesteckt wurde.’ To read these two books side by side is instructive, not only for ancient history.