Paul Cartledge

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Paul Cartledge is a Professor of Greek History at Cambridge University, and a fellow of Clare College. A world expert on Athens and Sparta in the Classical Age, he has been described as a Laconophile. He was chief historical consultant for the BBC TV series The Greeks and the Channel 4 series The Spartans, presented by Bettany Hughes.

Cartledge completed his doctoral thesis in Spartan archaeology at Oxford in 1975. His thesis advisor was Professor Sir John Boardman.

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  • Aristophanes And His Theatre of the Absurd (1989) Duckworth. ISBN 1853991147
  • Nomos : Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society (1991) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521370221
  • Spartan Reflections, a collection of essays new and revised (Duckworth 2001) ISBN 0-7156-2966-2
  • Sparta and Lakonia (2nd edn. 2001)
  • Hellenistic and Roman Sparta (rev. edns 2002) (with A. Spawforth)
  • The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (2nd ed, 2002), the product of research into Greek self-definition
  • Kosmos: essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (coauthor Millett, Paul.) (2002) Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521525934
  • The Spartans: An Epic History (2nd ed, 2003)
  • Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004)
  • Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures (2004) Center for Hellenic Studies. ISBN 0674012232
  • Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World (2006). The Overlook Press. ISBN 1585675660.

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