Author : Peter Funke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674031999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League by : Peter Funke
Download or read book The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League written by Peter Funke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire. This book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally leveled Sparta was in vital ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League.