RATIONES RERUM 20: Articolo Marina Polito

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Rationes Rerum 20

MARINA POLITO
Il sissizio spartano: testi e frammenti tra realtà e rappresentazione

This article discusses the hypothesis that we possess only an aristocratic representation of Lycurgus’ σ υσσίτιον, and that modern scholars have wrongly interpreted it as an actual description. The σ υσσίτιον may have been structured from its origins as an ἄικλον, sparse and equal for all, and an ἐπάικλον, in which the differences between the various σ υσσίτια, including the Spartan ones of different rank, emerged.