“Tremblers” (tresantes) were those Spartans who had fled from the enemy. Since the Spartan code of values required them to remain in their ranks until victory or death, those who survived a defeat were socially humiliated and marginalized. While the term is already attested in Tyrtaios, the formalization of their status is elusive: the episodes that refer to some kind of social degradation and/or legal punishment of one or more Spartan tremblers are rare, limited to the years between 480 and 331 BCE, and not reducible to a common pattern.
Tremblers (tresantes) at Sparta
Lupi Marcello
2018
Abstract
“Tremblers” (tresantes) were those Spartans who had fled from the enemy. Since the Spartan code of values required them to remain in their ranks until victory or death, those who survived a defeat were socially humiliated and marginalized. While the term is already attested in Tyrtaios, the formalization of their status is elusive: the episodes that refer to some kind of social degradation and/or legal punishment of one or more Spartan tremblers are rare, limited to the years between 480 and 331 BCE, and not reducible to a common pattern.File in questo prodotto:
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