Sparta's Third Attic War
Encounter Books,USA (Verlag)
978-1-64177-413-0 (ISBN)
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In Sparta's Third Attic War, Paul Rahe examines the armed conflict that followed, attending to the impact on its outcome of the internal struggles that took place at Athens, at Sparta, and at the court of the Great King; describing the maneuvers of the wily, flexible, seductive Athenian turncoat Alcibiades, who dominated in turn the counsels of the Spartans, the Persians, and his fellow Athenians; and charting the eventual emergence at Lacedaemon of a commanding figure of helot ancestry named Lysander, who formed a close relationship with the younger son of the Great King and, in battle, outwitted the Athenians at every turn. This is a story of grit, determination, and brilliance on both sides. It examines the ambivalence of the Spartans, it relates the folly that brought the Athenians down, and it traces their ultimate defeat to defects in the policy and vision of Pericles.
Paul A. Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is professor of history, and he currently chairs the board of trustees of the Institute of Current World Affairs. He majored in History, the Arts and Letters at Yale University, readLitterae Humanioresat Oxford University's Wadham College on a Rhodes Scholarship, and then returned to Yale to do his PhD in ancient Greek history under the direction of Donald Kagan. He is the author ofRepublics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution(1992),Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic(2008),Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic(2009),Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect(2009), and of five recent volumes on the grand strategy of classical Sparta. In recognition of this body of work, the University of Piraeus in Greece conferred on him on 11 April 2022 its Themistocles Statesmanship Award.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.11.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-64177-413-4 / 1641774134 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-64177-413-0 / 9781641774130 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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