The Spartan Regime_ Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy - Paul Anthony Rahe

The Spartan Regime Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy Paul A. Rahe New Haven and London ...

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The greatest inconvenience associated with my endeavor is that here one sees men who resemble us almost in nothing, who seem to ...

List of Maps ix - Prologue: The Spartan Enigma Introduction: The Allure of Lacedaemon xi - 1.P ...

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ix Map 1. Mainland Greece xviii Map 2. Laconia and Messenia 75 Map 3. Sparta in the Mediterranean 78 Map 4. Mount Taygetus and M ...

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xi I n the summer of 425 b.c., the Athenians managed to pull off a coup. They were at war. They had established a base on the we ...

xii Introduction same can be said for one hundred twenty of the two hundred ninety-two men under his command who were still aliv ...

Introduction xiii time that he died, if not well before, the concept had become fundamental to political science.^5 In the fifth ...

xiv Introduction formation in the broadest and most comprehensive sense, is more important than anything else in deciding the ch ...

Introduction xv affairs quite ineptly and have allowed things to drift so that fortune comes to function as a lawgiver [nomothét ...

xvi Introduction One remark before we begin: when they alluded to Athens, Corinth, Megara, or Lacedaemon by name as a political ...

The Spartan Regime ...

Map 1. Mainland Greece ...

1 Prologue The Spartan Enigma Patriotism is conducive to good morals, and good morals contribute to patrio- tism. The less we ar ...

2 Prologue tion of liberty. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, with the spread of liberal democracy, this view seemed di ...

Prologue 3 Were the testimony of history less positive and circumstantial, such a govern- ment would appear a mere philosophical ...

4 Prologue that became available during and after the Peloponnesian War. In the univer- sal history he wrote concerning the rise ...