As representações de Esparta: guerra, educação, cultura e sociedade

Abstract

The present work entitled "The Representations of Sparta: War, Education, Culture and Society" aims to establish an analysis of the cultural interactions between the ancient societies, especially the Greek, in order to understand the way in which they represented and represented the other. While Athens in this period was characterized as a polis considered to be highly urbanized, Sparta possessed characteristics considered archaic, since its culture was based on the rural values, its economic base was agriculture, they did not value much by the trade and it had an extremely legislative system rigid defense of the polis by means of the formation of citizens / warriors - the hóplitas, thus making that Sparta was a polis directed to the warrior education. From this collective identity as a warlike polis, I seek to construct an imaginary corpus in order to identify the way in which Sparta was represented in the attempt to perceive patterns of continuity or rupture in the representations of war and warrior in the Greek world.