The 4th-3rd centuries BC are marked by fundamental events which reshaped the history of Sparta. In the period of the lost Lacedaemonian hegemony over the Peloponnese, ideally comprised between the battle of Leuktra (371 BC) and the battle of Sellasia (222 BC), Sparta knew a revival in arts and culture that was marked by the important local minting of silver coinage. The monetary system, introduced by king Areus I and especially increased by Cleomenes III and Nabis, counteracted the political and social weakness and set off the new Hellenistic period of the last Spartan kingdoms, attempting to reassert Lacedaemonian hegemony in central Greece.
Last kingdoms, new traditions in Hellenistic Sparta / Golino, Stefania. - (2022). (Intervento presentato al convegno The battle of Sellasia (222 BC). Landmark of the last flash of Sparta tenutosi a Sparta, Greece).
Last kingdoms, new traditions in Hellenistic Sparta
STEFANIA GOLINO
2022
Abstract
The 4th-3rd centuries BC are marked by fundamental events which reshaped the history of Sparta. In the period of the lost Lacedaemonian hegemony over the Peloponnese, ideally comprised between the battle of Leuktra (371 BC) and the battle of Sellasia (222 BC), Sparta knew a revival in arts and culture that was marked by the important local minting of silver coinage. The monetary system, introduced by king Areus I and especially increased by Cleomenes III and Nabis, counteracted the political and social weakness and set off the new Hellenistic period of the last Spartan kingdoms, attempting to reassert Lacedaemonian hegemony in central Greece.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
