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A H ISTORY OF

A NCIENT S PARTA :

V ALOR , V IRTUE , AND

D EVOTION IN THE

G REEK G OLDEN A GE

COURSE GUIDE

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

KENYON COLLEGE

A History of Ancient Sparta:

Valor, Virtue, and Devotion

in the Greek Golden Age

Professor Timothy B. Shutt

Kenyon College

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Course Syllabus

A History of Ancient Sparta:

Valor, Virtue, and Devotion in the Greek Golden Age

About Your Professor ...................................................................................................4

Introduction...................................................................................................................5

Lecture 1

Aura and Overview: “Come and take them.” .........................................6

Lecture 2

Geography and Origins .......................................................................11

Lecture 3

Institutions: What Made the Spartans So Different? ...........................16

Lecture 4

Government and Religion ....................................................................21

Lecture 5

Spartan Art and Culture.......................................................................27

Lecture 6

Women in Sparta .................................................................................31

Lecture 7

The Early Days: Before the Persian Wars ..........................................35

Lecture 8

The Ionian Revolt to Marathon, 490 BCE ...........................................40

Lecture 9

Their Finest Hour: Artemisium and Thermopylae,

490–480 BCE (Part I) ..........................................................................46

Lecture 10 Their Finest Hour: Artemisium and Thermopylae,

490–480 BCE (Part II) .........................................................................51

Lecture 11 The Triumph of the Greeks: Salamis and Plataea, 480–479 BCE......56

Lecture 12 Earthquake, Revolt, Stormclouds Gathering:

The Peloponnesian War to the Peace of Nicias..................................61

Lecture 13 Sparta Triumphant: From the Peace of Nicias to Aegospotami ..........66

Lecture 14 Triumph and Nemesis: From the Destruction of the

Long Walls at Athens to Leuctra and Beyond .....................................72

Course Materials ........................................................................................................77

About Your Professor

Timothy B. Shutt

For more than twenty years, Professor Timothy Baker Shutt has taught at

Kenyon College, famed for splendid teaching, literary tradition, and unwavering

commitment to the liberal arts. No teacher at Kenyon has ever been more often

honored, both by the college and by students, for exceptional skills in the class-

room and as a lecturer. Professor Shutt’s courses in Kenyon’s interdisciplinary

Integrated Program of Humane Studies and, before that, in the Department of

English, have always been heavily oversubscribed.

Shutt is a native of Ohio, raised in Michigan and schooled in Connecticut.

During his high school years at the Hotchkiss School, he was honored as an

All-American swimmer and devoted much of his time to drama. He majored in

English as an undergraduate at Yale (’72). After three years at St. Mark’s School

of Texas, where he taught English and history and coached swimming, Shutt

went on to graduate school in English, specializing in medieval literature and the

history of ideas at the University of Virginia as a Du Pont Fellow. After earning

his Ph.D. in 1984, Shutt spent two further years at Virginia as a Mellon Post-

Doctoral Research Fellow and took a position at Kenyon in 1986, where he has

taught happily ever since, deeply enjoying interaction with his students and the

peaceful life of the Ohio countryside.

Shutt is a jovial extrovert and a polymath—a born teacher and lecturer—interest-

ed in nearly everything and everybody. In the Integrated Program in Humane

Studies, he teaches literature, philosophy, history, art history, religious studies,

and, at times, the history of science. He has written on military history, baseball,

and birding in addition to his academic studies and gives regular talks at the

Brown Family Environmental Center at Kenyon on migratory birds and on obser-

vational astronomy and the lore of the stars. He also works, when time permits, as

a sports announcer for Kenyon football games, and for championship swimming

meets nationwide, claiming longtime Detroit Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell as his

inspiration. Shutt also travels regularly as a spokesperson for Kenyon, giving talks

and lectures on behalf of the college from coast to coast. But his real vocation is

reading and the classroom.

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