Transition Note - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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The following paragraphs were in the author’s notes for Chapter 6 but lacked a location where they belonged with a transition; they consist mainly of quotations from Stephen Hodkinson, Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (London: 2000). Can you help us work it into the body of Chapter 6?
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Author’s Notes on Sparta From Hodkinson for Chapter 6
p. 22: TheyFact CheckShould “They” be changed to “The ancient Spartans”? Or is this an unmarked quotation from Hodkinson? were moderate in their drinking.[1] KritiasSpelling of TermCheck spelling: Critias or Kritias? wrote two treatises entitled Polity of the Lakedaimonians,Spelling of TermCheck spelling (repeats in next two paragraphs too): Lakedaimonians or Lacedaemonians? one in verse and one in prose.
“Lakedaimonian youths drink only enough to direct the thinking of all towards cheery hopefulness and temperate laughter… The way of life of the Lakedaimonians is evenly ordered: to eat and drink the appropriate amount to render them capable of thought and labor. No day is set aside for soaking the body through immoderate draughts.”[2]Verify CitationCan someone with access to Hodkinson’s text check that that is the correct citation here (that this is on p. 22) or let us know if something else needs to be added as a citation here?Transition NoteTransition and context are needed for this quotation.
In contrast to the Athenian practice of passing around a wine cup after giving toasts, “the Lakedaimonians drink each from his own cup and the wine-waiter pours only as much as each wants to drink.”[3]
