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Title: Sparta`s First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478 – 446 BC
Author: RAHE PAUL ANTHONY
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/09/2019
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $51.95
Publishing status: Active
During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift opened and an intense, strategic rivalry began. In a continuation of his series on ancient Sparta, noted historian Paul Rahe examines the grounds for their alliance, the reasons for its eventual collapse, and the first stage in an enduring conflict – which would wreak havoc on Greece for six decades. Throughout, Rahe argues that the alliance between Sparta and Athens and their eventual rivalry were extensions of their domestic policy and that the grand strategy each articulated in the wake of the Persian Wars and the conflict that arose in due course grew out of the opposed material interests and moral imperatives inherent in their different regimes.
ISBN: 9780300242614
Pages: 328