Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C. (Yale Library of Military History) - Hardcover

Rahe, Paul Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030024262X ISBN 13: 9780300242621

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The latest volume in Paul Rahe’s expansive history of Sparta’s response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy

“Paul Rahe stands out as one of the world’s leading scholars on the Peloponnesian War. His latest volume on Sparta’s protracted struggle with Athens provides insight into enduring problems of politics and strategy in wartime, into why and how peoples fight, both in the ancient world and in our own troubled times.”―John H. Maurer, Naval War College

In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six‑decades‑long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars. Rahe explores how and why open warfare between these two erstwhile allies broke out a second time, after they had negotiated an extended truce. He traces the course of the war that then took place, he examines and assesses the strategy each community pursued and the tactics adopted, and he explains how and why mutual exhaustion forced on these two powers yet another truce doomed to fail. At stake for each of the two peoples caught up in this enduring strategic rivalry, as Rahe shows, was nothing less than the survival of its political regime and of the peculiar way of life to which that regime gave rise.

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About the Author

Paul A. Rahe studied ancient history at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, then later at Yale. He holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is professor of history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030024262X
• ISBN 13: 9780300242621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408