César Fornis

This article has a twofold objective. On the one hand, it will be analyzed the reception that the Greco-Roman intelligentsia and high culture gave both to the ancient and legendary Sparta and to its small, select and idiosyncratic civic body (the homoioi) during the first century of the Principate, namely from its foundation under Augustus until the dawn of the Second Sophistic, which, because of its importance for our subject, requires specific work that we have already undertaken...