Bronze Lie
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Bronze Lie
Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
02/2021
320
Dura
Inglês
9781472843753
15 a 20 dias
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Preface List of Maps PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA Introduction PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY IX. The "Moron Label": The Spartans and the Political Far Right Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle Glossary Bibliography Index
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Sparta; Thermopylae; Leonidas; Messenian wars; Greco-Persian wars; Corinthian war; Boeotian war; Theban-Spartan War; Persian; Peloponnesian; hoplite; Sphacteria; Athens; 300; Rome: Total War; Phalanx; Thucydides; Herodotus; Plutarch; mirage; armour; ideology; culture; molon labe; laconophilia; armour; agoge; Spartiate; Lycurgus; Agis II; helot; Agesilaus II; Leotychides; Tyrtaeus; Theopompus; Aristomenes; Cyrus the Great; Cleomenes; Demaratus; Darius; Xerxes; Mardonius; Pausanias; Amompharetus; Archidamus; Demosthenes; Brasidas; Alcibiades; Gylippus; Lysander; Cleombrotus
Preface List of Maps PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA Introduction PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY IX. The "Moron Label": The Spartans and the Political Far Right Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle Glossary Bibliography Index
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Sparta; Thermopylae; Leonidas; Messenian wars; Greco-Persian wars; Corinthian war; Boeotian war; Theban-Spartan War; Persian; Peloponnesian; hoplite; Sphacteria; Athens; 300; Rome: Total War; Phalanx; Thucydides; Herodotus; Plutarch; mirage; armour; ideology; culture; molon labe; laconophilia; armour; agoge; Spartiate; Lycurgus; Agis II; helot; Agesilaus II; Leotychides; Tyrtaeus; Theopompus; Aristomenes; Cyrus the Great; Cleomenes; Demaratus; Darius; Xerxes; Mardonius; Pausanias; Amompharetus; Archidamus; Demosthenes; Brasidas; Alcibiades; Gylippus; Lysander; Cleombrotus
