Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta
Paul Cartledge
As one of the two Spartan kings, Agesilaos II presided over Sparta's greatest imperial expansion and its collapse as a major power. At his accession in 400 BC, Sparta had recently defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War and was the undisputed leader of the Aegean Greek world; at the time of his death some forty years later, Sparta had been reduced to the status of a mere Peloponnesian squabbler, its role indistinguishable from that of any of a number of other Greek states. Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta is an account of this critical period of Greek history, focusing on a single career. Progressing both chronologically and thematically, the author reveals the principal aspects of Spartan politics and society and appraises the possible causes of Sparta's preciptous decline and fall.
წელი:
2000
გამოცემა:
1
გამომცემლობა:
Bloomsbury Academic
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
508
ISBN 10:
0715630326
ISBN 13:
9780715630327
ფაილი:
PDF, 284.35 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2000