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The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy (Yale Library of Military History)

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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 actual nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, thought to be a perfect of liberty within the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the brand new 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 resolve the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, with the intention to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and day by day life in Lacedaemon than has up to now gave the impression in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians within the Aegean.

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