Author:
Cole, Myke, author.
ImprintOxford, UK : New York, NY : Osprey Publishing, 2021.
Description464 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note:Cuckold kings and wolves' work: behind the Spartan mirage -- Archaic Sparta at war: early losses, foreign roots -- The Greco-Persian war: the Thermopylae speed bump -- The Peloponnesian wars: floundering at sea, surrendering on land -- Masters of Greece? Sparta squanders its hegemony -- The Boeotian war: what cannot bend must break -- The end of Sparta: irreformable and irrelevant -- Conclusion: the bronze lie -- The "Moron label": the Spartans and the political far right -- Appendix A. Historiography and objectivity -- Appendix B. The fundamentals of ancient battle.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-453) and index.
Note:The story of the Spartans is one of the best known in history, from their rigorous training to their dramatic feats of arms- but is that portrait of Spartan supremacy true? Renowned novelist and popular historian Myke Cole goes back to the original sources to set the record straight.
