Sparta and the East between the Archaic and Classical Periods
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Sparta, Mediterranean, Connectivity, Near EastAbstract
The history of Sparta is usually divided between the Archaic and Classical periods, these characterized, respectively, by openness to external influences and its subsequent blockage. However, a closer analysis of the relationship between Sparta and the Near East may show, in these two periods, a continuum rather than completely different phases of the same society. Considering the Spartan material culture and the literary evidences of the Archaic and Classical periods, we have a picture in which Sparta did maintain some insertion in the Eastern Mediterranean networks, but indirectly, associating itself with cities or agents already well established in these networks. In this sense, Sparta did not completely changed its attitude towards its “international” relations, but maintained the same logic of connection, investing only in the connectivity that responded to its specific internal demands.
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