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The Spartans
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Author : Paul Cartledge
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-09-20
The Spartans written by Paul Cartledge and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with History categories.
The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals Sparta embodied militarism, totalitarianism, segregation and brutal repression. As ruthless as they were self-sacrificing, their devastatingly successful war rituals made the Spartans the ultimate fighting force, epitomized by Thermopylae. While slave masters to the Helots for over three centuries, Spartan women, such as Helen of Troy, were free to indulge in education, dance and sport. Interspersed with the personal biographies of leading figures, and based on thirty years' research, Paul Cartledge's The Spartans tracks the people from 480 to 360 BC charting Sparta's progression from the Great Power of the Aegean Greek world to its ultimate demise.
Spartan
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Author : Valerio Massimo Manfredi
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-07-31
Spartan written by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-31 with Fiction categories.
Full of passion, courage and magic, Spartan is an enthralling novel of the ancient world.
The Spartan Army
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Author : J. F. Lazenby
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2012
The Spartan Army written by J. F. Lazenby and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
For at least two centuries the Spartan army was the most formidable war machine in Greece; the purpose of this book is to show the reasons for this. Professor Lazenby looks first at the composition, training and organization of the army, tracing its roots back to the eighth century BC. The second part analyses some of the main campaigns - Thermopylae, Plataea, Sphakteria, Mantineia, The Nemea, Koroneia, Lechaion and Leuktra. The final part continues the story to the end of Greek independence. Since this book was first written over 25 years ago, novels, computer games and films such as 300 have raised interest in the Spartan military to new heights. The return to print of this excellent study is sure to interest academics and more general readers alike.
The Spartan Supremacy 412 371 Bc
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Author : Mike Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-07-30
The Spartan Supremacy 412 371 Bc written by Mike Roberts and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with History categories.
Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history, in the late fourth and early third century BC, did the home of these grim warriors seem set to entrench itself as the dominant power in the Greek world. This period includes the latter stages of the Peloponnesian War from 412 BC to the Spartan victory in 402, and then down to the Spartan defeat by the Thebans at Leuctra in 371 BC, where it all began to unravel for the Spartan Empirern Surprisingly few previous books have covered the tumultuous first decades of the fourth century BC, particularly when compared to the ample coverage of the Peloponnesian War. As the authors explain, although the earlier period has the benefit of Thucydides' magisterial history, the period covered here is actually well served by sources and well worthy of study. There are many interesting characters here, including Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, Pelopidas and Epaminondas, to name but a few. In addition there are several campaigns and battles that are reported in enough detail to make them interesting and comprehensible to the reader. Bob Bennett and Mike Roberts untangle the complexities of this important but unduly neglected period for the modern reader.
The Spartan Hoplites
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Author : Louise Park
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2010
The Spartan Hoplites written by Louise Park and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Ancient And Medieval People Profiles some of the fiercest in history. Learn about their lives and times, notorious battles, and daring feats! In The Spartan Hoplites, learn about the bloody battles of soldiers in the Spartan army. Read about the ancient Greek state of Sparta, Spartan Warfare, and the decline of the Spartan hoplites. Book jacket.
The Spartan Regime
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Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-27
The Spartan Regime written by Paul Anthony Rahe and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with History categories.
“[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta’s early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values.” (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks) For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, considered an ideal of liberty in the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the modern totalitarian state by many twentieth-century scholars has long remained a mystery. In a bold new approach to historical study, noted historian Paul Rahe attempts to unravel the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, in order to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and daily life in Lacedaemon than has previously appeared in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians in the Aegean. “Persuasive.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review “Rahe thinks and writes big. . . . The Spartan Regime breaks important new ground.” —Jacob Howland, Commentary “An important new history. . . . The story of this ancient clash of civilizations, masterfully told by Paul Rahe . . . provides a timely reminder about strategic challenges and choices confronting the United States.” —John Maurer, Claremont Review of Books “Rahe’s ability to reveal the human side beneath [an] austere exterior is one of many reasons to read this beautifully written, meticulously researched, and deeply engaging book.” —Waller R. Newell, Washington Free Beacon “A serious scholarly endeavor.” —Eric W. Robinson, American Historical Review
The Spartan
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Author : Caroline Dale Snedeker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
The Spartan written by Caroline Dale Snedeker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Sparta (Extinct city) categories.
The Spartan
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Author : Caroline Dale Snedeker
language : en
Publisher: General Books
Release Date : 2009-08
The Spartan written by Caroline Dale Snedeker and has been published by General Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with categories.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: he could remember. This was her Lacedaemon. At last they stood upon its sacred soil. All that afternoon, as they followed the road south down the bed of the river Oinous, Makaria seemed in a dream. No roughness of the way, no pools left by the rain through which they waded ankle deep, no tangle of fallen trees across the path ? nothing could stay her. She put the branches away with a mighty hand. She strode the loose, slippery stones unpausing. Her long ten years of married exile were drawing to a close, and she would fain have crushed the last few hours into moments of time. At last the road emerged. They clambered up a little hillside, and there, before them in the sunset light, lay the whole circle of hollow Lacedaemon, and Sparta in the midst, Sparta, breeder of men. Makaria gave a little sharp cry, then stood in seeming quiet. .It was indeed a view to contemplate. Beyond the narrow plain Taygetos rose. First, lesser hills with shadow-purple gorges and Sash of leaping streams, then the mighty slope, soft with its forest multitudes. Above, on the vast, bare cliffs hung the tired battalions of the storm, heavily purple in the golden light, casting shadows broad as counties over uplands and ravines. And above the clouds, at the sheer zenith edge, gleamed the perennial snows, peak upon peak, billowing away and away in upper air like a visible god-place unsullied by mortal tread. In such fashion do the awful hills o'ershadow Lacedaemon, and close her in from the world. But it was not at the hills that the Spartan woman looked, not even at the plain with golden harvest breasthigh, where olives here and there flung lengthened shadows across the grain. She saw only the town itself. It looked to Aristodemos small and mean enough. But to her eyes its every roof was dear. ...
The Spartan Tradition In European Thought
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Author : Elizabeth Rawson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.
Release Date : 1969
The Spartan Tradition In European Thought written by Elizabeth Rawson and has been published by Oxford : Clarendon P. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with History categories.
Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes, Whig England, and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate, and indicates Sparta's role--over twenty-five centuries--in the intellectual history of Europe.
The Spartan And Theban Supremacies
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Author : Charles Sankey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The Spartan And Theban Supremacies written by Charles Sankey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Greece categories.