Articles
Spartan Influences on the Design of the American Republic
October 9, 2026 · A study arguing that the Lycurgan constitution of Sparta passed a significant, mediated inheritance to the American founding through Polybius, the Roman Republic and Britain. It draws structural parallels between Sparta's paired Kings, Gerousia, Apella and Ephorate and the American President and Vice President, Senate, House and a judicial check.
Read (PDF)The Laconian Table: A Culinary History of Sparta, the Parnonas, and the Mani
A culinary history of Laconia, from the ancient Spartan syssitia through later periods to the present, with regional surveys, restaurant notes and recipes. It is framed by the author's childhood summers in Sparta and Polydroso (Tsintzina) and his grandmother's beef version of the Spartan broth.
Read (PDF)The Song of the Unquenchable Flame: An Epic of Arete, Inheritance, and the Hellenic-Roman Fire
An epic poem that invokes the Muse to celebrate arete and the Hellenic-Roman inheritance of the West, from Homer and Hesiod to Athens, Sparta and the philosophers. It calls for that tradition to be kindled anew.
Read (PDF)St. Nikon of Sparta: The Patron Saint of Lakedaimon, the Expulsion of the Jews, and the Anatomy of a Canonization
October 19, 2026 · An essay on St. Nikon the Metanoeite (c. 930–c. 1000), patron saint of Sparta, and the expulsion of Sparta's Jewish community in the early 970s, read against Byzantine law and scholarship. It argues the expulsion was an extralegal act under a charismatic monk's pressure, that the sources charge ritual pollution rather than contagion, and that it served as a founding act of Nikon's local cult.
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