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Author Cartledge, Paul.

Title The Spartans : the world of the warrior-heroes of ancient Greece, from utopia to crisis and collapse / Paul Cartledge.

Imprint Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  938.9 C248s 2003    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  938.9 Car    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 304 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-294) and index.
Contents pt. 1. "Go, tell the Spartans" -- 1. Under the sign of Lycurgus -- 2. Sparta in 500 BC -- 3. The Persian Wars, 490-479 BC -- pt. 2. The Spartan myth -- 4. "50-year period", 478-432 BC -- 5. Women and religion -- 6. The Athenian War, 432-404 BC -- pt. 3. A crippled kingship -- 7. The Spartan Empire, 404-371 BC -- 8. Fall and decline, 371-331 BC -- 9. Revival and reinvention 331 BC-AD 14 -- 10. The legacy : Leonidas lives.
Subject Sparta (Extinct city) -- History.
ISBN 1585674028

 
    
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