Sparte: l'autre modèle.

When we think of Archaic Greece and Ancient Greece, we almost always think of Athens as if by reflex. Athens, the archetypal Greek city whose Acropolis, bequeathed by history, fascinates us more than ever. Storiavoce invites you to leave this mythical city, head southwest, cross the Isthmus of Corinth, leave the city of Argos on your left, named after a son of Zeus, and skirt Mount Parnon to enter a plain where the city of Sparta is located. We generally tend to make this city a world apart, a world so special that it has given our language an adjective: Spartan. However, we would forget that Sparta "must be considered a Greek city of Greeks in Greece." It thus appears to us as another model because it had an undeniable influence during the classical era. Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon are all there to testify to this, but today, in a beautiful book published by Perrin, historian Nicolas Richer evokes its history. He is interviewed by Christophe Dickès. Guest: Nicolas Richer, a history professor, was a lecturer at Paris-I (1994-2000) and then a professor at the University of Strasbourg-II (2000-2003). He now teaches at the École Normale Supérieure des Lettres et Sciences Humaines in Lyon. He is the author of numerous articles on Sparta and has already published, with Publications de la Sorbonne, Les Éphores. Études sur l'histoire et sur l'image de Sparta (8th-3rd century BC) (1998); La religion des Spartiates (Belles Lettres); Sparta, City of Arts, Arms, and Laws (Perrin).