SPECS will host the forthcoming online workshop ‘Sparta and the Peloponnese at War’. The workshop is designed to provide early career researchers with a supportive forum in which to present their work, engage in scholarly discussion, and receive constructive feedback from participants and an invited specialists.

We are delighted that Professor Hans van Wees (UCL) will join us as the expert respondent for this session. We warmly welcome contributions and comments from scholars at all career stages.

The workshop will take place online on Wednesday 27 May at 13.00 BST, via MS Teams. Attendance is free and open to all; however, advance registration is required. Please register using the event link.

Programme

13:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks

13:05 Kyriakos Velos (Monash University) - Strangers in a Spartan land: the resettlement of foreigners in Spartan territory

13:35 Natasha Bershadsky (Harvard University) - A Strange Proposal: Reconstructing Mimetic Battles between Argos and Sparta in the Archaic Period

14:05 Cezary Kucewisz (University of Gdansk) - Discipline in Archaic Spartan armies

14:35 BREAK

14:45 Alessandro Carli (University of Siena) - That’s how a hegemon should behave: Spartan leadership in the early Peloponnesian War (431-425 BCE)

15:15 Tyler M Miller (Florida State University)  - The Last Fleet of Sparta: Nabis and the Navy

15:45 Matt Thompson (University of Nottingham) and Paul M Bardunias (Florida Atlantic University) - The unsung contribution of Helots in Archaic and Classical Spartan armies

16:15 Closing remarks.