Sparta S German Children

Author : Helen Roche
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589175

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Sparta's German Children by Helen Roche Pdf

From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta. From older children, from teachers in the classroom, and from higher authority first in Prussia, then in Imperial and National Socialist Germany, came images of Sparta designed to inculcate ideals of endurance, discipline and of military self-sacrifice. Identification with Sparta could also be used to justify ideas of domination over Germany's eastern neighbours. Helen Roche is the first to examine this still sensitive topic systematically and in depth. She collects and analyses official and published German evocations of Sparta but also, and remarkably, reconstructs the experiences of German children taught to be 'little Spartans' in the Prussian Cadet Corps and National Socialist elite schools, the Napolas. In treating the final, and gravest, period of this process, the author has personally collected testimony from numerous surviving German witnesses who attended the Napolas as children in the early 1940s. That testimony is presented here, in a work which is likely to proof definitive, not only for its treasury of new information, but for its elegant - and humane - analysis.

Author : Helen Roche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Children
ISBN : 1905125550

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Sparta's German Children by Helen Roche Pdf

The use by the Nazi regime of idealised images of ancient Sparta is increasingly recognised as an important element of the Third Reich. This work explores the historical roots and the personal effects of these ideals.

Author : Andrew J. Bayliss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192594518

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The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss Pdf

The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on the silver screen, as he decides to lead his 300 warriors to their deaths at Thermopylae. But what was Sparta? The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians called themselves 'equals' or peers, but their equality was reliant on the ruthless exploitation of the indigenous population known as helots. The Spartans' often bizarre rules and practices have the capacity to horrify as much they do to fascinate us today. Athenian writers were intrigued and appalled in equal measure by a society where weak or disabled babies were said to have been examined carefully by state officials before being dumped off the edge of a cliff. Even today their lurid stories have shaped our image of Sparta; a society in which cowards were forced to shave off half their beards, to dress differently from their peers, and who were ultimately shunned to the extent that suicide seemed preferable. Equally appalling to us today is the brutal krypteia, a Spartan rite of passage where teenagers were sent into the countryside armed with a knife and ordered to eliminate the biggest and most dangerous helots. But the truth behind these stories of the exotic other can be hard to discover, lost amongst the legend of Sparta which was even perpetuated by later Spartans, who ran a thriving tourist industry that exaggerated the famed brutality of their ancestors. As Andrew Bayliss explores in this book, there was also much to admire in ancient Sparta, such as the Spartans' state-run education system which catered even to girls, or the fact that Sparta was almost unparalleled in the pre-modern world in allowing women a clear voice, with no fewer than forty sayings by Spartan women preserved in our sources. This book reveals the best and the worst of the Spartans, separating myth from reality.

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119072393

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A Companion to Sparta by Anton Powell Pdf

The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical Greece Features in-depth coverage of Sparta history and culture contributed by an international cast including almost every noted specialist and scholar in the field Provides over a dozen images of Spartan art that reveal the evolution of everyday life in Sparta Sheds new light on a modern controversy relating to changes in Spartan society from the Archaic to Classical periods

Author : Matthew Feldman,Jorge Dagnino,Paul Stocker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474281119

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The "New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45 by Matthew Feldman,Jorge Dagnino,Paul Stocker Pdf

Bringing together an expert group of established and emerging scholars, this book analyses the pervasive myth of the 'new man' in various fascist movements and far-right regimes between 1919 and 1945. Through a series of ground-breaking case studies focusing on countries in Europe, but with additional chapters on Argentina, Brazil and Japan, The "New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45 argues that what many national forms of far-right politics understood at the time as a so-called 'anthropological revolution' is essential to understanding this ideology's bio-political, often revolutionary dynamics. It explores how these movements promoted the creation of a new, ideal human, what this ideal looked like and what this things tell us about fascism's emergence in the 20th century. The years after World War One saw the rise of regimes and movements professing totalitarian aims. In the case of revolutionary, radical-right movements, these totalising goals extended to changing the very nature of humanity through modern science, propaganda and conquest. At its most extreme, one of the key aims of fascism – the most extreme manifestation of radical right politics between the wars – was to create a 'new man'. Naturally, this manifested itself in different ways in varying national contexts and this volume explores these manifestations in order to better comprehend early 20th-century fascism both within national boundaries and in a broader, transnational context.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045423527

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Child Welfare Extension Service. Hearing ... on S. 255 and H.R. 12995 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Matthew A. Sears
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009021104

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Sparta and the Commemoration of War by Matthew A. Sears Pdf

The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspiring soldiers with rousing verse in the seventh century BCE to inscriptions celebrating the 300's last stand at Thermopylae, and from Spartan imperialists posing as liberators during the Peloponnesian War to the modern reception of the Spartan as a brave warrior defending the “West”, Sparta has had an outsized role in how warfare is framed and remembered. This image has also been distorted by the Spartans themselves and their later interpreters. While debates continue to rage about the appropriateness of monuments to supposed war heroes in our civic squares, this authoritative and engaging book suggests that how the Spartans commemorated their military past, and how this shaped their military future, has perhaps never been more pertinent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004514256

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Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences by Anonim Pdf

This book examines passages in Plutarch’s works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination. The contributors question omissions of authors, works, people, and places, and they examine Plutarch’s reticence to comment where he usually would.

Author : Philip Davies,Edith Mossman
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589861

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Sparta in Plutarch's Lives by Philip Davies,Edith Mossman Pdf

Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other to the popular conception of Sparta. Writing under the Roman Empire, at a time when the glory days of ancient Sparta were already long in the past, Plutarch represents a milestone in Sparta's mythologisation, but at the same time is a vital source for our historical understanding of Sparta. In this volume, eight scholars from around the world come together to consider Plutarch's understanding and presentation of Sparta, his flaws and significance as an historical source, and his development of Sparta as a resonant subject and theme within his bestknown work, the Parallel Lives. This book is the latest in a series which the Classical Press of Wales is publishing on major sources for Sparta. Volumes on Xenophon and Sparta (Powell & Richer 2020) and Thucydides and Sparta (Powell & Debnar 2021) have already been released, and a further volume on Herodotus and Sparta is currently in preparation

Author : Helen Roche,Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004299061

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Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany by Helen Roche,Kyriakos N. Demetriou Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda constantly manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.

Author : W. Martin Bloomer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119023890

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A Companion to Ancient Education by W. Martin Bloomer Pdf

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the latest research findings and presents new historical syntheses of the rise, spread, and purposes of ancient education in ancient Greece and Rome Offers comprehensive coverage of the main periods, crises, and developments of ancient education along with historical sketches of various educational methods and the diffusion of education throughout the ancient world Covers both liberal and illiberal (non-elite) education during antiquity Addresses the material practice and material realities of education, and the primary thinkers during antiquity through to late antiquity

Author : Helen Roche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198726128

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The Third Reich's Elite Schools by Helen Roche Pdf

The Third Reich's Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany's most prominent training academies for the future elite. This deeply researched study gives an in-depth account of everyday life at the schools, while also shedding fresh light on the political, social, and cultural history of the Nazi dictatorship.

Author : Beatrice Heuser,Athena S. Leoussi
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473893757

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Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World by Beatrice Heuser,Athena S. Leoussi Pdf

Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the decisiveness of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them that determines their fame. This ground-breaking series goes well beyond military history by exploring the transformation of battles into sites of memory and meaning. Cast into epic myths of the fight of Good against Evil, of punishment for decadence or reward for virtue, of the birth of a nation or the collective assertion against a tyrant, the defence of Civilisation against the Barbarians, Christendom against the Infidel, particular battles have acquired fame beyond their immediate contemporaneous relevance.The epic battles of European history examined in this first volume range from the siege of Troy and the encounters of Marathon and Thermopylai, to the wars of the Israelites which inspired the way many later battles would be narrated; and from the triumphs and defeats of the Roman Empire, to Hastings, the massacre of Bziers and the battle of Courtrai. In each chapter, the historical events surrounding a battle form the backdrop for multi-layer interpretations, which, consciously or unconsciously, carry political agendas.

Author : Peter J. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781350140233

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Sport by Peter J. Miller Pdf

Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport. Sport saturates contemporary society and the global reach of sport and its intense popularity characterizes the modern world. But, at the same time, sport is one of the most ancient human pursuits. In the globalized sport of today, the type of athletic performance and the ideology of sport and its apparent origins are mostly derived from the model of one pre-modern civilization: Graeco-Roman antiquity. Juxtaposing ancient writers with recent ones, including the modern Olympic founder Pierre de Coubertin and physical fitness impresario Bernarr Macfadden, and by examining the representation of sport in Olympic films, Miller demonstrates the ancient heritage of contemporary sport, and the creative ways in which ancient sport has been adapted, appropriated, mishandled and reimagined. Sport today contains a surprising contradiction: its explicit modernity (from its technological sophistication and integration into capitalist markets to its institutionalization and celebrity culture) and its supposed antiquity (from the mythology of the Olympics to the ancient roots of sporting civic and national pride, and the emotional and near religious fervour of sports fans). This book intervenes in one of the most important of the receptions of classical antiquity by examining how sports personalities, agencies, institutions and movements have consciously connected themselves to the Graeco-Roman past, even as they continue to insist on their own centrality in the modern world.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : LOC:00157616092

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Child Welfare Extension Service by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf