Paul Cartledge
Biographic Data
| ID | 190411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cartledge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cartledge |
| SIGNATURE | CARTLEDGE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 101 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 475 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 90 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume IV: Cyrene to Metapontion
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and so…
The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume I: Argos to Corcyra
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and so…
The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux
In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from comple…
Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux
Judith M. Barringer, Olympia. A Cultural History
When the modern iterations of the Summer Olympics come round, there is often detectable a string of publications, more and less scholarly, on the ancient (summer-only) quadrennial Games and their original, unique and immovable, site. Professor Barringer’s severely scholarly and academic volume is no exception, if only by accident. It first appeared in the same year that the Tokyo Olympics (officially XXXII) actually occurred, though – thanks to t…
Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume IV
Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening-and Our Best Hope
Purdy (for Jedediah, see 2 Samuel 12:25) is a distinguished American lawyer and law professor, specializing in constitutional and environmental law. He has written a truly outstanding book. Spoiler alert: I could find so few things either to correct or seriously to disagree with that it was tempting merely to summarize each of the eleven chapters of the entire three-hundred-page work. There is no consolidated bibliography, by the way, but a rich …
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Volume I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the early modern era. The themes examined include the …
Urbicide in the Ancient Greek World, 480–330 bce
'Urbicide' is a Latin formation - as deployed in this chapter, it refers to the total or near-total destruction of cities (poleis) of the ancient Greek/Hellenic world between the 6th and the 4th centuries BCE. Urbicide was an extreme measure of interstate politics, but not as rare as one might have predicted - or hoped. It represented the other, dark side of the ancient Greeks' fierce attachment to their own native polis. In some cases a polis mi…
Antipolitics: Populism (Not) in Ancient Athens
As part of the Common Knowledge symposium "Antipolitics" - which concerns the present confrontation and confusion of democracy and populism - this essay begins from the observation that populism is a word of Latin, not Greek, derivation. The Roman populus did not have the independent democratic power of the Athenian demos, though both words can be translated as "people." Whereas today, in representative democracies, the conflict of populism and d…
Politics, Academic and Ancient
Moses (“Moe”) Finkelstein was a child prodigy, not least in maths—or math, as he would have called it, since he was raised in upstate New York, where he graduated with a BA from Syracuse University in 1927, at the tender age of fifteen. By the age of seventeen, he had added an MA from Columbia University, where it was, thanks mainly to the inspiration of W. L. Westermann's lecturing, that he conceived an ambition—much deferred in its realization—…
Thucydides’ Mytilenaean Debate: Political Philosophy or Authoritative History?
Six decades ago (my chronology is as exact as that of Thucydides’ ‘pentekontaëtia’), A. (‘Tony’) Andrewes, Oxford’s Wykeham Professor, laid down a number of markers for the ways in which a historian of late fifth-century BC Greece (such as he – and I) could or properly should make use of a famous pair of Thucydidean speeches, for purposes of historical reconstruction and analysis. 1 Since 1962, there has been a plethora of scholarship published o…
Comparatively Equal
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A tale of two cities
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community.This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on th…
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
The Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians
The Spartan Contribution to Greek Citizenship Theory
One of the major current scholarly debates surrounding ancient Sparta concerns its status as a unicum—or not: how was Sparta ‘different', if indeed it was, from all or most other Greek poleis ? One of those possible ways concerns its politeia , that is both its ‘constitution’ and—the original sense of the word—its mode of citizenship. In this chapter it is argued that Sparta may have made a pioneering contribution to Greek citizenship theory. If …
The Socratics’ Sparta and Rousseau’s
Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians
Civil Wars: A view from the world of ancient Greece’
Our term ‘civil war’ has a direct correlate in the terminology of ancient Rome but the ancient Greeks, who practised civil war with a literal vengeance and great frequency, described it very differently: as a ‘standing apart’ and ‘against’ of one (citizen) faction against another
How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece
How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of …
Against Democracy by Jason Brennan
Book Review| August 01 2018 Against Democracy by Jason Brennan Brennan, Jason, Against Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 288 pp. Paul Cartledge Paul Cartledge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 431–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6939841 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Cartledge; Against D…
De Ste. Croix, Geoffrey Ernest Maurice (1910–2000)
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix was a Marxist, atheist, feminist historian of the ancient Greek and Roman world who came to ancient history in middle age and produced important studies of the role of class and the oppression of the poor throughout ancient Greek and later history.
Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities: A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece
Franco De Angelis. Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily: A Social and Economic History
It is often a surprise to those who know anything about the slightly parlous state of modern Sicily to discover that in Greco-Roman antiquity the island was not just important but for long stretches of time centrally and fundamentally important in all sorts of different ways—political, social, economic, and cultural. Take, for example, the flurry of excitement surrounding the recent find of a quite magnificent white-marble, over-life-size, draped…
Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth, at a very special price. Together, both volumes take an authoritative overview on this fascinating state of Ancient Greece. Sparta and Lakonia explores both the city-state of Aparta and the territory of Lakonia, covering the period from the apogee of Mycenaean culture to it's …
Agesilaos and the crisis of Sparta
Sparta and Samos: A Special Relationship
The relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States seems to embody most fully the type of the ‘special relationship’ today. It is a relationship founded ultimately (and now of course remotely) on biological kinship, structured by mutual economic and strategic interests and cemented by a sense of political and ‘spiritual’ affinity. At least the broad contours of such contemporary ‘special relationships’ are sufficiently clear. This …
Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society
Journal Article Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society Get access Cartledge Paul Millett Paul Todd Stephen, eds. Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society. Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 240. $49.50. Bruce W. Frier Bruce W. Frier The University of Michigan Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 36, Iss…
Spartan Wives: Liberation or Licence
The neologism ‘sexist’ has gained entry to an Oxford Dictionary, The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English , third edition (1974), where it is defined as ‘derisive of the female sex and expressive of masculine superiority’. Thus ‘sexpot’ and ‘sex kitten’, which are still defined in exclusively feminine terms in the fifth edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1976), have finally met their lexicographical match. This point about curr…
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC
In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta. The book explores both the city-state of Sparta and the territory of Lakonia which it unified and exploited. Combining the more traditional written sources with archaeological and environmental perspectives, its coverage extends from the apogee of Mycenaean culture, to Sparta's crucial defeat at the battle…
Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Regional History 1300-362 BC
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community.This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on th…
Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 B. C
The Economic and Social Growth of Early Greece 800-500 B. C
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities
Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction takes the polis as its starting point and uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative themes in Ancient Greek history, from the first documented use of the Greek language in around 1400 bce, through the glories of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in around ce 330. Ancient Greek civilization was defined by th…
Pericles of Athens
Pericles has had the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. “Periclean” Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry, oratory, and architecture. This is the first book in more than two decades to reassess the life and legacy of one of the greatest generals, …
Classical Greek agriculture II: Two more alternative views
Since I published a review essay in this journal on the recent study of Classical Greek agriculture, focusing on two very different and even opposing attempts at synthesis [Cartledge, 1993], two further major studies in the same general field have appeared, again with different perspectives and conclusions. What one of them [Hanson, 1995] rightly calls the ‘veritable renaissance in research concerning ancient Greek agriculture and society’ shows …
Classical Greek agriculture: Recent work and alternative views
When the economic basis of a great civilisation is at issue, historians are bound to disagree strongly, and controversy can only be intensified when the available primary evidence is inadequate in both quantity and quality. Such is the case with the recent study of agriculture in the ancient Greek world. The two very different general books under review here nicely complement each other both in scope and approach, and provide an excellent introdu…
Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta
Antipolitics: Populism (Not) in Ancient Athens
As part of the Common Knowledge symposium "Antipolitics" - which concerns the present confrontation and confusion of democracy and populism - this essay begins from the observation that populism is a word of Latin, not Greek, derivation. The Roman populus did not have the independent democratic power of the Athenian demos, though both words can be translated as "people." Whereas today, in representative democracies, the conflict of populism and d…
Taking Herodotus Personally
Herodotus was the modern-that is, fifth-century B.C.E. -Odysseus. His pioneering investigative "odyssey" of research and travel among the cities of men and peoples, both Greek and non-Greek, is the primary focus of this article. The past couple of decades has seen an extraordinary flowering of scholarship and other kinds of study, both on Herodotus' work and on the wars, the history of which he wrote up and in a sense invented. The article aims t…
The Greeks and Anthropology
J.G. Frazer borrowed the title of his anthropological or should it be anthroposophical? extravaganza The Golden Bough (original edition 1890) from this famous passage of Vergil's no less golden Latin epic. But to conventional late Victorian Classicists he was better known or respected for the six-volume commentary he published eight years later on Pausanias, the ancient Greek Baedeker, who had embarked on a curiously proto-Frazerian pilgrimage of…
The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume I: Argos to Corcyra
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and so…
How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece
How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of …
Against Democracy by Jason Brennan
Book Review| August 01 2018 Against Democracy by Jason Brennan Brennan, Jason, Against Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 288 pp. Paul Cartledge Paul Cartledge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 431–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6939841 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Cartledge; Against D…
We Are All Greeks’? Ancient (Especially Herodotean) and Modern Contestations of Hellenism
‘WE ARE ALL GREEKS’? ANCIENT (ESPECIALLY HERODOTEAN) AND MODERN CONTESTATIONS OF HELLENISM Get access PAUL CARTLEDGE PAUL CARTLEDGE Clare College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, December 1995, Pages 75–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00465.x Published: 12 March 2010
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 B.C
Sparta and Lakonia: A regional history, 1300-362 B.C.
The Economic and Social Growth of Early Greece 800-500 B. C
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 B.C
Spartan Wives: Liberation or Licence
The neologism ‘sexist’ has gained entry to an Oxford Dictionary, The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English , third edition (1974), where it is defined as ‘derisive of the female sex and expressive of masculine superiority’. Thus ‘sexpot’ and ‘sex kitten’, which are still defined in exclusively feminine terms in the fifth edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1976), have finally met their lexicographical match. This point about curr…
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 B. C
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access PAUL CARTLEDGE PAUL CARTLEDGE Clare CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXV, October 1982, Pages 873-a–873, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXV.873-a Published: 01 October 1982
Sparta and Samos: A Special Relationship
The relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States seems to embody most fully the type of the ‘special relationship’ today. It is a relationship founded ultimately (and now of course remotely) on biological kinship, structured by mutual economic and strategic interests and cemented by a sense of political and ‘spiritual’ affinity. At least the broad contours of such contemporary ‘special relationships’ are sufficiently clear. This …
Yvon Garlan, Les esclaves en Grèce ancienne, Paris, Maspero, 1982, 224 p
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'Trade and Politics' revisited: Archaic Greece
Archaeology in Greece
Despite the well-known adage, the Greeks did not always have a word for it. ‘Archaeology’ has of course an ancient Greek etymology. But when the word was invented in the fifth century B.C., it did not mean what we would understand by archaeology but something like ‘antiquarian lore’.1 This is not to say that the ancient Greeks were not interested in matters archaeological. Far from it. For example, in about 470 B.C. the Athenian general Cimon, so…
Agesilaos and the crisis of Sparta
The ‘Tacitism’ of Edward Gibbon (two hundred years on)
Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta
Aristophanes And His Theatre of the Absurd
Aristophanes, the Athenian comic dramatist, remains popular despite historical changes in attitude and belief. Placing the plays in their total civic, religious and dramatic context, this account explores their significance for contemporary audiences, and their continuing appeal. Separate chapters address aspects of his work and world, and attempt to outline the playwright's own opinions at a time of intense political debate. With original texts …
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities
Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society
Journal Article Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society Get access Cartledge Paul Millett Paul Todd Stephen, eds. Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society. Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 240. $49.50. Bruce W. Frier Bruce W. Frier The University of Michigan Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 36, Iss…
Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society
Classical Greek agriculture: Recent work and alternative views
When the economic basis of a great civilisation is at issue, historians are bound to disagree strongly, and controversy can only be intensified when the available primary evidence is inadequate in both quantity and quality. Such is the case with the recent study of agriculture in the ancient Greek world. The two very different general books under review here nicely complement each other both in scope and approach, and provide an excellent introdu…
The Politics of Gender. Ancient Athenian-style
We Are All Greeks’? Ancient (Especially Herodotean) and Modern Contestations of Hellenism
‘WE ARE ALL GREEKS’? ANCIENT (ESPECIALLY HERODOTEAN) AND MODERN CONTESTATIONS OF HELLENISM Get access PAUL CARTLEDGE PAUL CARTLEDGE Clare College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, December 1995, Pages 75–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00465.x Published: 12 March 2010
Classical Greek agriculture II: Two more alternative views
Since I published a review essay in this journal on the recent study of Classical Greek agriculture, focusing on two very different and even opposing attempts at synthesis [Cartledge, 1993], two further major studies in the same general field have appeared, again with different perspectives and conclusions. What one of them [Hanson, 1995] rightly calls the ‘veritable renaissance in research concerning ancient Greek agriculture and society’ shows …
The Greeks and Anthropology
J.G. Frazer borrowed the title of his anthropological or should it be anthroposophical? extravaganza The Golden Bough (original edition 1890) from this famous passage of Vergil's no less golden Latin epic. But to conventional late Victorian Classicists he was better known or respected for the six-volume commentary he published eight years later on Pausanias, the ancient Greek Baedeker, who had embarked on a curiously proto-Frazerian pilgrimage of…
Comparatively Equal
Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History and Historiography
Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography
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