The Population and Policy of Sparta in the Fifth Century Author(s): G. B. Grundy Source: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 28 (1908), pp. 77-96 Published by: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/624558 . Accessed: 25/03/2013 15:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Hellenic Studies. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 141.161.91.14 on Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:01:28 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE POPULATION AND POLICY OF SPARTA IN THE FIFTH CENTURY. IT is, perhaps, somewhat venturesome to attempt to say anything upon a subject which demands full treatment from anyone who would write a History of Greece, and which has, therefore, been discussed at considerable length by many great historians. Still the research of the last twenty years has led to such material modifications of the views which formerly prevailed as to the exact significance of various important factors in the history of the Greek race, that the learned world has become emancipated from the tyranny of stereotyped tradition, and has ceased to regard deviation from the accustomed views as necessarily fanciful and untrue.