The Spartan Regime : Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy / Paul Anthony Rahe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rahe, Paul Anthony, Author.

Series:

Yale library of military history.

Yale Library of Military History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sparta (Extinct city)--History.

Sparta (Extinct city).

Sparta (Extinct city)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history 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 modern totalitarian state by many twentieth-century scholars has long remained a mystery. In a bold new approach to historical study, noted historian Paul Rahe attempts to unravel the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, in order to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and daily life in Lacedaemon than has previously appeared in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians in the Aegean.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Maps

Introduction: The Allure of Lacedaemon

Prologue: The Spartan Enigma

Chapter 1. Paıdeía

Chapter 2. Polıteía

Chapter 3. Conquest

Chapter 4. Politics and Geopolitics

Conclusion: A Grand Strategy for Lacedaemon

Appendix 1. Land Tenure in Archaic Sparta

Appendix 2. The Néoı at Sparta

List of Abbreviations and Short Titles

Notes

Author's Note and Acknowledgments

Index of Subjects

Index of Persons and Places

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-22461-3

OCLC:

957590500