The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy

Paul Anthony Rahe

ISBN 10: 0300219016 / ISBN 13: 9780300219012

Published by Yale University Press, 2016

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An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history Series: Yale Library of Military History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 247 x 27. Weight in Grams: 498. . 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300219016
• ISBN 13: 9780300219012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history

For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, considered an ideal of liberty in the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the modern totalitarian state by many twentieth-century scholars has long remained a mystery. In a bold new approach to historical study, noted historian Paul Rahe attempts to unravel the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, in order to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and daily life in Lacedaemon than has previously appeared in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians in the Aegean.

About the Author

Paul A. Rahe is a Rhodes Scholar and the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Professor of History at Hillsdale College, and the author of numerous books including the three-volume Republics Ancient and Modern. He lives in Hillsdale, MI.