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Leonidas and the kings of Sparta : mightiest warriors, fairest kingdom /

Why have the Spartans continued to exert such a hold on popular imagination? Nearly 2,500 years after King Leonidas led his Spartan warriors at the Battle of Thermopylae, their legend endures, as seen most recently in Frank Miller's hugely successful graphic novel, 300, and the 2007 film incarn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bradford, Alfred S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, Ã2011.
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Dorian Wars
  • 1. By Bus to the "Hollow"
  • 2. "Tell the Spartans ..."
  • 3. Sons of Heracles
  • 4. First Kings of Sparta
  • pt. II Messenian Wars
  • 5. Over the Mountains
  • 6. Shoulder to Shoulder
  • 7. "Never Retreat"
  • 8. Deeds of the Wolf
  • 9. Spartan Way
  • pt. III Arcadian and Argive Wars
  • 10. Spartan Alliance
  • 11. "Strangers"
  • 12. Accidental King
  • 13. King Who Saved Greece
  • pt. IV Persian Wars
  • 14. "Greeks"
  • 15. Defeat and Victory
  • 16. Battle of Plataea
  • 17. Treason of Pausanias
  • pt. V Athenian Wars
  • 18. Precarious Entente
  • 19. King Archidamos Gives Sound Advice
  • 20. Archidamian War
  • 21. War within Peace
  • 22. Decelean War
  • 23. Man Who Would Be King
  • pt. VI Theban Wars
  • 24. Common King
  • 25. "Free and Autonomous"
  • 26. Sparta's Empire
  • 27. Battle of Leuctra
  • 28. Sparta at Bay
  • pt. VII Macedonian Wars
  • 29. Struggle to Survive
  • 30. In the Shadow of Great Powers
  • 31. Gentle Reformer
  • 32. Revolutionary
  • 33. Betrayal of Greece
  • 34. Last Kings of Sparta
  • pt. VIII Roman War
  • 35. Tyrant Who Was a King
  • 36. Sparta under the Romans.