Stephen Hodkinson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1209702 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Hodkinson |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Hodkinson |
| FIRMA | HODKINSON S |
| AFILIACIONES | Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham Nottingham UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8957-1077 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 208 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 12 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Self-Reproducing Slaveries in Classical Greece
This chapter examines enslaved populations—Helots, Mariandynoi, Penestai, and Cretan slaves—who maintained themselves through self-reproduction. Ancient writers highlighted distinctive characteristics: common language, ethnic homogeneity, and (except on Crete) propensity to revolt. The earliest sources viewed them as privately owned, though subject to varying state intervention, especially strong in Sparta, weak in Thessaly. Most were agricultura…
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, Chapter IV, and the Development of Spartan Historical Studies
This article examines the impact on Spartan historiography of Chapter IV of de Ste. Croix’s Origins of the Peloponnesian War, focusing on his discussions of Spartan politics and society in Sections v–vi. These sections fit oddly within the overall chapter, but they blew a breath of fresh air into Spartan studies through their revisionist approach, intimations of the socio-economic bases of policy-making, and extended accounts of ‘real-life’ polit…
Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese
Animal Husbandry in the Greek Polis
Professionalism, Specialization, and Skill in the Classical Spartan Army?
Contrary to orthodox views, Sparta’s full citizens, the Spartiates, were not professional or specialized full-time soldiers and, apart from practice in elementary drill, their training focused mainly on physical fitness. In so far as Sparta’s armies excelled in technical proficiency, it was through their tight-knit organization and hierarchical command structures and their methodical, if often inflexible, implementation of set manoeuvres.
Warfare, wealth, and the crisis of Spartiate society 1
This chapter examines the methods and personnel through which Sparta organized and conducted its foreign campaigns. It considers the impact of these upon Spartan politics and society. The chapter briefly compares Sparta’s experience of warfare and empire with that of the Roman republic, as a control for assessing its significance in the development of the Spartiate crisis. Several ancient writers claim that the Spartan social order was ruined by …
Spartan Exceptionalism?
Was Classical Sparta a Military Society
Lakonian Artistic Production and the Problem of Spartan Austerity
An Agonistic Culture
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Sparta in Modern Thought
The Development of Spartan Society and Institutions in the Archaic Period
Sparta
Sparta
Sparta
Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta
The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Sparta's success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform lifestyle and a communal sharing of resources. Over time, however, increasing inequalities led to a plutocratic society and to the decline of Spartan p…
Slave Systems
A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples …
Sparta and War
Spartan Society
The Development of Spartan Society and Institutions in the Archaic Period
For the conference which gave rise to this volume I was asked to discuss 'the development of Sparta's distinctive institutions to the end of the sixth century'.1 The organisers' suitably laconic formulation forms a good starting-point for discussion, since it prompts some fundamental questions which might threaten to subvert any discussion of Archaic Sparta. First of all, do we have reliable information about the substance of Archaic Spartan inst…
Sparta
Introduction
This introductory chapter begins with a brief background of the organization of the Leeds–Manchester Greek History Research Seminar, which sought ‘to give the variety and plurality their due by examining alternatives (theoretical and actual) to the polis and/or to democracy in archaic, classical, and early hellenistic Greece’. In short, the goal was to provide a counterbalance to the then current democracy celebrations, to redirect attention to t…
Warfare, wealth, and the crisis of Spartiate society
The outbreak of war with Athens in 431 BC marked, for Sparta, the beginning of an extended period of warfare outside its traditional sphere of influence within the Peloponnese which was to last, with only temporary interruptions, for a period of sixty years. This prolonged external engagement was a new factor in Spartan history. Sparta’s earlier campaigns outside the Peloponnese had been spasmodic and brief; but in this period Spartiate commander…
Inheritance, Marriage and Demography
Land tenure and Inheritance in Classical Sparta
‘The problem of Spartan land tenure is one of the most vexed in the obscure field of Spartan institutions.’ Walbank's remark is as true today as when it was written nearly thirty years ago. Controversy surrounding this subject has a long tradition going back to the nineteenth century and the last thirty years have witnessed no diminution in the level of disagreement, as is demonstrated by a comparison of the differing approaches in the recent wor…
Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta
The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Sparta's success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform lifestyle and a communal sharing of resources. Over time, however, increasing inequalities led to a plutocratic society and to the decline of Spartan p…
Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta
Spartan economic egalitarianism and communitarianism in modern thought -- The growth of the dominant egalitarian image in ancient thought -- The ownership and inheritance of land, revisited -- Helotage and the exploitation of Spartan territory -- Movable wealth: ownership, acquisition, and exchange -- Public rights over private property -- Restrictions on the use of wealth in Spartiate life -- Restrictions on the use of wealth: burial and funerar…
Alternatives to Athens
In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis — or citizen state — is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, it tends to be forgetten that the democratic citizen state was only one of many forms of political community in Greek antiquity. This volume aims to redress the bala…
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Inheritance, Marriage and Demography
Warfare, wealth, and the crisis of Spartiate society
The outbreak of war with Athens in 431 BC marked, for Sparta, the beginning of an extended period of warfare outside its traditional sphere of influence within the Peloponnese which was to last, with only temporary interruptions, for a period of sixty years. This prolonged external engagement was a new factor in Spartan history. Sparta’s earlier campaigns outside the Peloponnese had been spasmodic and brief; but in this period Spartiate commander…
Mantineia and the Mantinike
The purpose of this study is to combine an archaeological and a historical analysis of settlement within the territory of the polis of Mantineia in E. Arkadia during the Archaic and Classical periods. Its aim is twofold: first, to collect and interpret the evidence for settlements and their history; secondly, to examine that evidence in relation to Mantineia's society and economy, in order to assess the significance of changes of settlement patte…
Mantineia and the Mantinike
The purpose of this study is to combine an archaeological and a historical analysis of settlement within the territory of the polis of Mantineia in E. Arkadia during the Archaic and Classical periods. Its aim is twofold: first, to collect and interpret the evidence for settlements and their history; secondly, to examine that evidence in relation to Mantineia's society and economy, in order to assess the significance of changes of settlement patte…
Land tenure and Inheritance in Classical Sparta
‘The problem of Spartan land tenure is one of the most vexed in the obscure field of Spartan institutions.’ Walbank's remark is as true today as when it was written nearly thirty years ago. Controversy surrounding this subject has a long tradition going back to the nineteenth century and the last thirty years have witnessed no diminution in the level of disagreement, as is demonstrated by a comparison of the differing approaches in the recent wor…
The Shadow of Sparta
Social Order and the Conflict of Values in Classical Sparta
Sparta
Introduction
This introductory chapter begins with a brief background of the organization of the Leeds–Manchester Greek History Research Seminar, which sought ‘to give the variety and plurality their due by examining alternatives (theoretical and actual) to the polis and/or to democracy in archaic, classical, and early hellenistic Greece’. In short, the goal was to provide a counterbalance to the then current democracy celebrations, to redirect attention to t…
Sparta
The Shadow of Sparta
Contributors: William Poole, University College, London, David Harvey^n, University of Exeter, Alfred Bradford, University of Missouri, Michael Whitby, University of St Andrews, Christopher Tuplin, University of Liverpool, Stephen Hodkinson, University of Manchester, Vivienne Gray, University of Auckland, Eckart Schutrumph, University of Colorado, N Fisher, University College Cardiff
Alternatives to Athens
In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis — or citizen state — is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, it tends to be forgetten that the democratic citizen state was only one of many forms of political community in Greek antiquity. This volume aims to redress the bala…
Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta
Spartan economic egalitarianism and communitarianism in modern thought -- The growth of the dominant egalitarian image in ancient thought -- The ownership and inheritance of land, revisited -- Helotage and the exploitation of Spartan territory -- Movable wealth: ownership, acquisition, and exchange -- Public rights over private property -- Restrictions on the use of wealth in Spartiate life -- Restrictions on the use of wealth: burial and funerar…
The Development of Spartan Society and Institutions in the Archaic Period
For the conference which gave rise to this volume I was asked to discuss 'the development of Sparta's distinctive institutions to the end of the sixth century'.1 The organisers' suitably laconic formulation forms a good starting-point for discussion, since it prompts some fundamental questions which might threaten to subvert any discussion of Archaic Sparta. First of all, do we have reliable information about the substance of Archaic Spartan inst…
Spartan Society
Sparta and War
Slave Systems
A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples …
Sparta
Sparta
Sparta
Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta
The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Sparta's success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform lifestyle and a communal sharing of resources. Over time, however, increasing inequalities led to a plutocratic society and to the decline of Spartan p…
The Development of Spartan Society and Institutions in the Archaic Period
Sparta in Modern Thought
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Spartan Exceptionalism?
Was Classical Sparta a Military Society
Lakonian Artistic Production and the Problem of Spartan Austerity
An Agonistic Culture
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