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Sparta Rediviva - Elizabeth Rawson: The Spartan Tradition in European Thought. Pp. x+390; 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. Cloth, £3·75 net.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Oswyn Murray
Affiliation:
Balliol College, Oxford

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

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1 But not Spartans: the tradition of a Spartan foundation goes back at least to Justin, if not Pompeius Trogus (Justin ix. 1.3; cf. Trogus, Prolog. ix); but it is found only in western sources from Orosius (iii. 13. 2) onwards, not in the east.

2 On Plethon's political thought, see Masai, F., Pléthon et le Platonisme de Mistra (1956), c. 2Google Scholar; on his relations with Italy, c. 8; also Pertusi, A., Riv. stud. biz. e neoellenici v (1968), 99 ff.Google Scholar, with full bibliography, p. 101 n. 3; and for Ciriaco and Plethon, Bodnar, E. W., Cyriacus of Ancona and Athens (1960), 55 ff.Google Scholar