title: The Religious Factor in the Politics of the Spartan Kings
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metadata.value: Pechatnova, Larisa G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T09:38:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-07T09:38:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Pechatnova L. G. The Religious Factor in the Politics of the Spartan Kings. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 1, рp. 75–91.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36488
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The purpose of this work is to show how exactly the Spartan kings used the religious factor
  in their politics. The author pays special attention to the cases of the interaction between the
  Spartan kings and the Delphic priests, and analyses the results of these relations. The families
  of the Spartan kings very early established close contacts with Delphi. It was already Lycurgus,
  who most likely belonged to the Agiads, was so close to the Delphic priests that he was
  able to obtain from them a full approval of his legislative reforms. The author points out that
  the Agiads were more influential in Delphi than the Euripontides. It can be explained by the
  fact that representatives of the Agiads, as an older royal family, very early acquired friends in
  Delphi and were able to pass down these relations to their descendants. The author concludes
  that the Spartan kings had great authority in Delphi, especially in the 5th century BC. They
  managed to carry out a series of radical political actions with the help of priests, in one case
  depriving an undesirable co-ruler of power, in the other case — restoring an exiled king to
  the throne, in the third case — restoring the reputation of an illegally repressed and executed
  member of the royal family. The author shows that Delphi, in controversial cases, as a rule,
  supported the kings defending their interests. The illegal methods by which the kings acted in
  Delphi suggest that Spartan rulers differed greatly in their mentality from their fellow citizens.
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metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 20-09-00455
  “Ancient foundations of modern spectacle culture: visualization and performance in religion and politics”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Delphic oracle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sparta
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Spartan kings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lycurgus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cleomenes I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pleistoanax
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lysander
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Herodotus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Thucydides
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Xenophon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Plutarch
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Religious Factor in the Politics of the Spartan Kings
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metadata.value: Article
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