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Sparta's First Attic War : The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. / Paul Anthony Rahe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rahe, Paul Anthony, Author.
- Series:
- Yale Library of military history.
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale Library of Military History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
- Greece.
- Athens (Greece)--Relations--Greece--Sparta (Extinct city).
- Athens (Greece).
- Sparta (Extinct city)--Relations--Greece--Athens.
- Sparta (Extinct city).
- Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
- Genre:
- History.
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan†'Athenian alliance During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift opened and an intense, strategic rivalry began. In a continuation of his series on ancient Sparta, noted historian Paul Rahe examines the grounds for their alliance, the reasons for its eventual collapse, and the first stage in an enduring conflict that would wreak havoc on Greece for six decades. Throughout, Rahe argues that the alliance between Sparta and Athens and their eventual rivalry were extensions of their domestic policy and that the grand strategy each articulated in the wake of the Persian Wars and the conflict that arose in due course grew out of the opposed material interests and moral imperatives inherent in their different regimes.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction. From One War to the Next
- Part I. Yokefellows
- Part II. Yokefellows No More
- Abbreviations and Short Titles
- Notes
- Author's Note and Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-24926-8
- OCLC:
- 1111801475
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