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.
#1166249 in Books imusti 2015-09-29Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.20 x .90 x 9.00l; 3.05 #File Name: 0300207689240 pagesYALE UNIVERSITY PRESS ACADEMIC
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