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Author : William John Woodhouse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book King Agis of Sparta and His Campaign in Arkadia in 418 B.C. written by William John Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. J. Woodhouse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (551 download)
Download or read book King Agis of Sparta and His Campaign in Arkadia in 418 A. C written by W. J. Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thucydides
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (652 download)
Download or read book King Agis of Sparta and His Campaign in Arkadia in 418 B.C. written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agis II (King of Sparta.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Agis: a tragedy, etc. In verse. By John Home written by Agis II (King of Sparta.) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dimetrios C. Manolatos
Publisher : The Warrior Class
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Sparta written by Dimetrios C. Manolatos and published by The Warrior Class. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strife, now more than ever plagues her. She knows only one cure for her illness and that is through her strength of arms. But alas, her men are masters of war. In 404 BC, after twenty-seven years of civil war, Sparta defeats Athens and reigns supreme in the Greek world. However, her victory is not without consequence. Conflict forces King Agis of Sparta to lead his army north to war with the Eleans, while Lysander, a Spartan hero of the Peloponnesian War is left at home to contemplate his next military pursuit. Meanwhile in Athens, the Thirty Tyrants that Sparta instated to govern their inferiors are banished, which gives way to democracy. This leads Xenophon, an Athenian pupil of Socrates, to decide if he should march with the Ten Thousand, while Socrates continues to defy his growing number of political adversaries. Across the sea in Persia, King Darius is deathly ill, causing his sons Cyrus and Artaxerxes to vie for the throne. If Artaxerxes succeeds his father, Sparta will face the imminent threat of another Persian invasion. Thus, the fate of Greece and freedom depends once again on the Spartans. A narrative of honor and deceit, love and betrayal, kings and slaves, great minds and ordinary citizens, Sparta chronicles the intersecting lives of the ancients, as well as their extraordinary achievements while thriving under the rule of history’s most formidable military society.
Author : Miltiadis Michalopoulos
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473884292
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book In the Name of Lykourgos written by Miltiadis Michalopoulos and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and with huge inner social problems, she seemed to have followed the fate of most contemporary city- states and fallen on the fringe of the political developments of her time. The 3rd century was a time when the great states and the Hellenistic empires were prominent. But contrary to the other city states, which compromised with the new political forces of their time, Sparta resisted stubbornly and tried to reclaim the hegemony of southern Greece. In this fight, Sparta showed unexpected vigor, even defying one of the most formidable powers of the time: Macedonia. The uneven collision that followed culminated tragically and painfully for Sparta at the Battle of Sellasia in 222BC. And still Sparta refused to compromise. After a while, she managed to recover and became once more a player on the international stage, not hesitating this time to challenge the most powerful state of the ancient world: Rome. This last Spartan twilight, the revolutionary movement that sparked it and the two ultimate turning points of her history [the battle of Sellasia and the siege of Sparta by the Romans] are analysed in this book with exhaustive bibliography and special emphasis on the military aspects of this epic fight. The original Greek edition of In the Name of Lykourgos received great critical acclaim and was named winner of the 2009 Lakedaimonian Prize of the Academy of Athens. It is here translated into English for the first time.
Author : Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589349
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta written by Stephen Hodkinson and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Sparta's success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform lifestyle and a communal sharing of resources. Over time, however, increasing inequalities led to a plutocratic society and to the decline of Spartan power. Using an innovative combination of historical, archaeological and sociological methods, Stephen Hodkinson challenges traditional views of Sparta's isolation from general Greek culture. This volume is the first major monograph-length discussion of a subject on which the author is recognised as the leading international authority.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141925507
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book On Sparta written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who also disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep chasm, introduced a gruelling regime of military training for boys, and treated their serfs brutally. Rich in anecdote and detail, Plutarch's writing brings to life the personalities and achievements of Sparta with unparalleled flair and humanity.
Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739964
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades written by Jacqueline de Romilly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy. As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades's life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in Athens, Alcibiades was a student of Socrates and disciple of Pericles, and he seemed destined to dominate the political life of his city—and his tumultuous age. Romilly shows, however, that he was too ambitious. Haunted by financial and sexual intrigues and political plots, Alcibiades was exiled from Athens, sentenced to death, recalled to his homeland, only to be exiled again. He defected from Athens to Sparta and from Sparta to Persia and then from Persia back to Athens, buffeted by scandal after scandal, most of them of his own making. A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is also a strikingly modern figure, whose seductive celebrity and dangerous ambition anticipated current crises of leadership.
Author : Beatriz Santillian
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508174865
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Leonidas I written by Beatriz Santillian and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 480 BCE, 300 Spartan soldiers sacrificed themselves so that Greece would unite against the Persian invasion. This is the story of Leonidas I, the man who led them. Readers experience the rich culture of this ancient Greek city-state, a domain notorious for its intellectualism and diplomatic prowess. Readers will learn about how Leonidas I furthered democracy while maintaining the prosperity of his people, even in the face of adversity. Santillian and Macgregor Morris team up to prove that there is much more to Sparta than its magnificent military might.
Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135864551
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Sparta and Lakonia written by Paul Cartledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta. The book explores both the city-state of Sparta and the territory of Lakonia which it unified and exploited. Combining the more traditional written sources with archaeological and environmental perspectives, its coverage extends from the apogee of Mycenaean culture, to Sparta's crucial defeat at the battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.
Author : Charles Rollin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians written by Charles Rollin and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Nemesis written by David Stuttard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer. David Stuttard recreates ancient Athens at the height of its glory as he follows Alcibiades from childhood to political power. Outraged by Alcibiades’ celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. Eventually, facing a capital charge of impiety, Alcibiades escaped to the enemy, Sparta. There he traded military intelligence for safety until, suspected of seducing a Spartan queen, he was forced to flee again—this time to Greece’s long-term foes, the Persians. Miraculously, though, he engineered a recall to Athens as Supreme Commander, but—suffering a reversal—he took flight to Thrace, where he lived as a warlord. At last in Anatolia, tracked by his enemies, he died naked and alone in a hail of arrows. As he follows Alcibiades’ journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades’ adventures against a backdrop of cultural splendor and international chaos. Navigating often contradictory evidence, Nemesis provides a coherent and spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians, storytellers, and artists for more than two thousand years.
Author : Charles Rollin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians written by Charles Rollin and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Rollin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians written by Charles Rollin and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarque
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN 13 : 0856685682
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The Malice of Herodotus written by Plutarque and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 1992 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History (see Lucian A Selection in this series) it forms a basic text for the study of Greek historiography. It is also perhaps the most revealing example of Plutarch's prose style with its rhetorical variety and energy and odd mixture of good and bad argument. But in citing lost works, Plutarch has preserved valuable fragments which don't exist elsewhere and need to be assessed by all students of the Persian Wars. Greek text with translion, introduction and commentary.
Author : Charles Rollin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Egyptians written by Charles Rollin and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
