Sparta in Literature

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Alcman
Fragmenta Alcmanis Lyrici (poetry) 7th century b.c.

Aristotle
Politeia [Politics] (philosophy) 4th century b.c.

Herodotus
History (history) 5th century b.c.

Isocrates
Panegyricus (speech) c. 380 b.c.
Panathenaicus (letter) c. 339 b.c.

Plato
Republic (philosophy) c. 4th century b.c.

Plutarch
Parallel Lives (biographies) c. late 1st century-c. early 2nd century

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War (history) c. 411 b.c.

Tyrtaeus
Fragmenta (poetry) 7th century b.c.

Xenophon
Agesilaus (biography) 4th century b.c.
Hellenica (history) 4th century b.c.
Respublica Lacedaemoniorum [Spartan Constitution] (history) 4th century b.c.

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