The Spartan regime its character, origins, and grand strategy

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 mode...

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Main Author: Rahe, Paul Anthony (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press, 2016
Series:The Yale library of military history
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Call Number :DF 261.S8 R346 2016

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