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Sparta's Second Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C.
ISBN: HB: 9780300242621, Yale University Press, September 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six-decades-long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars....
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£30,00
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Sparta's First Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.
ISBN: HB: 9780300242614, Yale University Press, September 2019
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.
During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift o...
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£25,00
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Antiquity Matters
ISBN: HB: 9780300215373, Yale University Press, November 2017
376 pp., 21x14 cm
This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition t...
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£20,00
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Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta The Persian Challenge
ISBN: PB: 9780300227093, Yale University Press, May 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.
More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was responsible for the i...
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£14,99
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Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality
ISBN: HB: 9780226439167, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In "Ethics and the Orator", Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder....
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£41,50
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Spartan Regime Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9780300219012, Yale University Press, September 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
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 civi...
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£25,00
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Oedipus and the Sphinx The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau
ISBN: HB: 9780226048086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 1 table
When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle – he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myt...
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£24,00
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