Sparta

  • Sparta: heroická historie
    By Paul Cartledge

    Sparta: heroická historie

  • Sparta: en odödlig historia
    By Paul Cartledge

    Sparta: en odödlig historia

  • Sparta: Unfit for Empire
    By Godfrey Hutchinson

    While noting the political issues, Godfrey Hutchinson's focus is upon the strategic and tactical elements of warfare in a period almost wholly coinciding with the reign of the brilliant commander, Agesilaos, one of the joint kings of Sparta ...

  • Sparta: Comparative Approaches
    By Stephen Hodkinson

    in his Spartan Reflections, Berkeley, 55–67, 201–2. 2001b 'Spartan wives: liberation or licence?', in his Spartan Reflections, Berkeley, 106–26, 212–20, revised version of CQ n.s. 31, 84–105. 2002 Sparta and Lakonia: A regional history ...

  • Sparta: A Captivating Guide to the Spartans, Greco-Persian Wars, Battle of Thermopylae, and Peloponnesian War
    By Captivating History

    And this is for good reason. After its founding sometime in the 10th century BCE, Sparta soon rose to be one of the most powerful city-states in not only the Greek but the entire ancient world.

  • Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation
    By Philip Matyszak

    Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation

  • Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation
    By Philip Matyszak

    This is a chronicle of political failure—one rich in heroes, villains, epic battles and political skullduggery. But it is also a lesson in how to go down fighting.

  • Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation
    By Philip Matyszak

    In this revealing history of Spartan society, Philip Matyszak chronicles the rise of the city from a Peloponnesian village to the military superpower of Greece.

  • Sparta: The Warrior State Revealed
    By James Harper

    The story of how they single-mindedly turned themselves into the masters of Greece, and then lost it all, in the space of five hundred years, is a fascinating whirlwind of battles and wars.

  • Sparta: New Perspectives
    By Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson

    The renewed interest in Sparta is international. The volume includes, for the first time, original contributions from most of the world's leading authorities on Spartan history.

  • Sparta: A Novel
    By Roxana Robinson

    Conrad has just returned home to Westchester after four years in Iraq, and something is very wrong.

  • Sparta: The Body Politic
    By Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson

    This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar. Chapters by distinguished scholars deal with the politics of Spartan nudity; the insecurity of Spartan kings and their involvement with...

  • Sparta: The Body Politic
    By Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson

    As Tigerstedt noted, 'Ephorus' decisive importance for posterity's views of earlier Greek history makes it necessary to form an idea of his attitude to Sparta and the Spartan legend'.2 Unfortunately, reconstructing what Ephorus had to ...

  • Sparta: Unfit for Empire
    By Godfrey Hutchinson

    ??While noting the political issues, Godfrey Hutchinson's focus is upon the strategic and tactical elements of warfare in a period almost wholly coinciding with the reign of the brilliant commander, Agesilaos, one of the joint kings of ...

  • Sparta
    By Michael Whitby

    First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation
    By Philip Matyszak

    Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation

  • Sparta: Beyond the Mirage

    Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks fresh ground, not least in the range of its contributors.

  • Sparta
    By M. G. L. Cooley

    ... with the name of Lykourgos is preserved . [ 2 ] Others such as Eratosthenes and Apollodoros base their chronological calculations on the hereditary kings of Sparta to demonstrate that Lykourgos pre - dates the first Olympiad [ 776 BC ] ...

  • Sparta

    ... Spartan foreign policy and also had significant influence on politics at home (see Cartledge Spartan Reflections ch.5). On the other hand, there were Spartan kings whose activities left almost no trace in our sources (e.g. Kleomenes II ...