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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New Haven
Yale University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the allure of Lacedaemon
- Prologue: the Spartan enigma
- Paideía
- Politeía
- Conquest
- Politics and geopolitics
- Conclusion: a grand strategy for Lacedaemon
- Appendix 1. Land tenure in archaic Sparta
- Appendix 2. The néoi at Sparta