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Traces the history of the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, describes its distinctive military society and the unusual freedom of Spartan women, and...
A Life
The 2,500 year story of democracy: how it has survived, how it has been practised, and how it has been imagined, from ancient Greece to the twenty-fir...
An Epic History
The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spa...
The Battle that Changed the World
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie' Thus did the poet Simonides remember the three hundred elite Spartan warrio...
An analysis of Alexander the Great's political and military accomplishments traces the path of his armies while charting the course of his influence, ...
A Portrait of Self and Others
This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoreticall...
"This is a book that scholars will read with pleasure, and a book from which advanced undergraduates and graduates will gain a sense of what Sparta wa...
The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars
The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. ...
Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. U...
A Tale of Two Cities
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative o...
A Regional History 1300-362 BC
In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities behind the potent myth of Sparta. The boo...
Introduces major topics in ancient Greek civilization through the development of eleven characteristic city states, ranging from prehistoric Cnossos t...
The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
‘An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern...
The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy...
This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge...
An account of a critical period of Greek history, focusing on a single career....
The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme tough...
A New Life of Alexander
This “literate rendering of Alexander’s life” offers a nuanced portrait of the great conqueror in both governance and war (Kirkus). Alexander's ...
"A balanced, high-quality analysis of the developing nature of Athenian political society and its relationship to 'democracy' as a timeless concept."�...
New Perspectives
Crucial to the understanding of Athenian literature and the political history of numerous Greek states, the history of Sparta is, at last, receiving d...
Crucible of Civilization
Written by one of the world's leading experts on Greek history, the story of classical Greece's rise and fall is told through the eyes of her heroes--...
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In 480 B.C., a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae to march on Greece, intending to conquer...
This book investigates the interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from prehistoric times to the Roman Empire....
Democritus and Atomistic Politics
The Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher': ourown age's 'prophet of quark': throughout modern philosophical traditions, Democritushas been a man little...
Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series. Democritus c. 460-c. 370BC The Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher'; our own age's 'Prophet of Quark': througho...
Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece
This is a book about identity, about how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us in turn about Greek mentality and cultur...
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The Truth Behind the Myth
At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once ...
Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a disti...
The Teaching Ministry of the Church and the Challenge of Depression