The Spartan Regime_ Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy - Paul Anthony Rahe
Conquest 85 right foot forward while actually hurling the javelin or driving the thrusting spear home, he would have turned will ...
86 Conquest was, as Euripides contended, “a slave to the military equipment that he bore [doûlos... tōn hóplōn] .”^51 When, howe ...
Conquest 87 “men don helmets and breastplates for their own sake, but the aspís they take up for the sake of the formation which ...
88 Conquest The military revolution under way late in the eighth and early in the sev- enth century had profound moral implicati ...
Conquest 89 istocracies. Their power he traces to the military predominance of men on horseback, and he cites as examples Chalci ...
90 Conquest A small army of horse-borne raiders would not, however, have been ade- quate to Sparta’s needs in the second quarter ...
Conquest 91 up to an inadequate command of the tactics that had all too recently become requisite or to a failure to deploy an a ...
92 Conquest modicum of democratization in the conduct of war, we should believe him; and we should do the same both when conside ...
Conquest 93 any hope of being able to defend themselves in the future. In history, there is but one iron law. Changes in militar ...
94 Conquest Carneia eight years before, is thought to have played an especially prominent role—was occasioned by Sparta’s defeat ...
Conquest 95 in the family lore of a well-known aristocratic clan located far afield. Accord- ing to it, Aristomenes, the figure ...
96 Conquest exile, and this they accomplished by keeping the memory of their fatherland and that of the resistance to its subjug ...
Conquest 97 allowed them to conduct their affairs in so orderly, restrained, and sane a fashion for so many years; and that made ...
98 Chapter 4 Politics and Geopolitics Rich in lovely fruit, Irrigated by a myriad of streams and springs, And well furnished wit ...
Politics and Geopolitics 99 appears to have governed the operations of the Spartan assembly and which is sometimes represented a ...
100 Politics and Geopolitics A Tale of Two Revolutions There is no way that we can bring full order to the confusion that this p ...
Politics and Geopolitics 101 that an elected archonship replaced at Athens hereditary kingship and lifelong rule by a member of ...
102 Politics and Geopolitics holding on the island of Thera was restricted, as it may well have been in very early Sparta, to a ...
Politics and Geopolitics 103 over, in the early sixth century, when called upon to arbitrate a dispute be- tween Athens and Mega ...
104 Politics and Geopolitics late in the eighth century; and we are told that he was still alive but incapaci- tated by old age, ...
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