The Spartans the world of the warrior-heroes of ancient Greece, from utopia to crisis and collapse

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Main Author: Cartledge, Paul
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. 'Go, tell the Spartans'
  • 1. Under the sign of Lycurgus
  • 2. Sparta in 500 BC
  • 3. The Persian Wars, 490-479 BC
  • pt. 2. The Spartan myth
  • 4. The '50-year period', 478-432 BC
  • 5. Women and religion - 6. The Athenian War, 432-404 BC
  • pt. 3. A crippled kingship
  • 7. The Spartan Empire, 404-371 BC
  • 8. Fall and decline, 371-331 BC
  • 9. Revival and reinvention 331 BC-AD 14
  • 10. The legacy : Leonidas lives.