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The Spartan regime : its character, origins, and grand strategy /

For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, considered an ideal of liberty in the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the mode...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rahe, Paul Anthony (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Colección:Yale library of military history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, The allure of Lacedaemon
  • Prologue, The Spartan enigma
  • Paideía
  • Politeía
  • Conquest
  • Politics and geopolitics
  • Conclusion, A grand strategy for Lacedaemon
  • Appendix 1, Land tenure in archaic Sparta
  • Appendix 2, The néoi at Sparta.