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Chapter 7 - From Thermopylae to 300

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2023

Matthew A. Sears
Matthew A. Sears
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University of New Brunswick
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The reception of Sparta, especially the Three Hundred, through 18th-century France, 19th- 20th-century Germany, 19th-century America, the Second World War, the Cold War, and today. A considering of how Sparta’s own distortion of Thermopylae in antiquity has been amplified throughout the centuries to leave us with the legacy of Thermopylae as a war for freedom when at the time it was not framed in any such way.

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ReceptionRousseauConfederate monumentsCold WarSecond World WarModern Sparta300
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Sparta and the Commemoration of War , pp. 197 - 235
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • From Thermopylae to 300
  • Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
  • Book: Sparta and the Commemoration of War
  • Online publication: 08 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023726.007
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  • From Thermopylae to 300
  • Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
  • Book: Sparta and the Commemoration of War
  • Online publication: 08 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023726.007
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  • From Thermopylae to 300
  • Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
  • Book: Sparta and the Commemoration of War
  • Online publication: 08 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023726.007
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