Bronze Lie

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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• Guerra e Defesa
• Batalhas e campanhas
• História Militar

Thermopylae; Leonidas; Messenian wars; Greco-Persian wars; Corinthian war; Boeotian war; Theban-Spartan War; Sphacteria; Athens; the 300; 300; Rome: Total War; Persian; Peloponnesian; Phalanx; Thucydides; Herodotus; Plutarch; armour; ideology; culture; molon labe; laconophilia; 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