The Spartan Regime
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Author |
: Paul Anthony Rahe |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2016-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300224610 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300224613 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spartan Regime by : Paul Anthony Rahe
“[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta’s early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values.” (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks) 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. “Persuasive.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review “Rahe thinks and writes big. . . . The Spartan Regime breaks important new ground.” —Jacob Howland, Commentary “An important new history. . . . The story of this ancient clash of civilizations, masterfully told by Paul Rahe . . . provides a timely reminder about strategic challenges and choices confronting the United States.” —John Maurer, Claremont Review of Books “Rahe’s ability to reveal the human side beneath [an] austere exterior is one of many reasons to read this beautifully written, meticulously researched, and deeply engaging book.” —Waller R. Newell, Washington Free Beacon “A serious scholarly endeavor.” —Eric W. Robinson, American Historical Review
Author |
: Paul Anthony Rahe |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2020-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300255751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300255756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sparta's Second Attic War by : Paul Anthony Rahe
In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six-decades-long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars. Rahe explores how and why open warfare between these two erstwhile allies broke out a second time, after they had negotiated an extended truce. He traces the course of the war that then took place, he examines and assesses the strategy each community pursued and the tactics adopted, and he explains how and why mutual exhaustion forced on these two powers yet another truce doomed to fail. At stake for each of the two peoples caught up in this enduring strategic rivalry, as Rahe shows, was nothing less than the survival of its political regime and of the peculiar way of life to which that regime gave rise.
Author |
: Paul A. Rahe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1351211538 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spartan Regime by : Paul A. Rahe
Author |
: Paul Anthony Rahe |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 657 |
Release |
: 2015-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300218602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300218605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta by : Paul Anthony Rahe
DIV” “Powerfully illustrates . . . that this regime determined the character and limits of Sparta’s domestic and foreign policy.” (Susan D. Collins, IThe Review of Politics) More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was responsible for the initial establishment of the Hellenic defensive coalition and was the most essential player in its ultimate victory. Drawing from an impressive range of ancient sources, including Herodotus and Plutarch, the author veers from the traditional Atheno-centric view of the Greco-Persian Wars to examine from a Spartan perspective the strategy that halted the Persian juggernaut. Rahe provides a fascinating, detailed picture of life in Sparta circa 480 B.C., revealing how the Spartans’ form of government and the regimen to which they subjected themselves instilled within them the pride, confidence, discipline, and discernment necessary to forge an alliance that would stand firm against a great empire, driven by religious fervor, that held sway over two-fifths of the human race. “[Rahe] has an excellent eye for military logistics . . . crisp and persuasive.” —The Wall Street Journal “Intensely well-researched and well-balanced.” —Steve Donoghue, The National “Masterful.” —Joseph Bottum, Books and Culture “A serious scholarly endeavor.” —Eric W. Robinson, American Historical Review “This brilliant revisionist study . . . reminds us how Sparta . . . saved Western freedom from the Persian aggression—and did so because of its innate courage, political stability, and underappreciated genius.” —Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Other Greeks “Full of keen understandings that help explain Spartan policy, diplomacy, and strategy.” —Donald Kagan, author of The Peloponnesian War /DIV
Author |
: Paul Anthony Rahe |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2019-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300242614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300242611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sparta's First Attic War by : Paul Anthony Rahe
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.
Author |
: Duncan B Campbell |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 66 |
Release |
: 2012-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781849087018 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1849087016 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spartan Warrior 735–331 BC by : Duncan B Campbell
Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best-trained, -organized and most-feared warriors of the ancient world. The small state of Sparta, known to the Ancient Greeks as Lakedaimon, developed a unique warrior society that used serfs and non-citizens to do all of the manual work, leaving the free-born men of Sparta free to concentrate all of their energies on warfare. Forbidden from engaging in any form of manual labour, these Spartan warriors were trained from an early age in a brutal regime that gave them the necessary discipline and tolerance to withstand the pressures of phalanx warfare and endure all manner of hardships on campaign. This book covers all aspects of the Spartan warrior's life, from the earliest days of his training through his life in peace and war, culminating in the battlefield experiences of these feared combatants.
Author |
: Helen Roche |
Publisher |
: Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2013-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781910589175 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1910589179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sparta's German Children by : Helen Roche
From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta. From older children, from teachers in the classroom, and from higher authority first in Prussia, then in Imperial and National Socialist Germany, came images of Sparta designed to inculcate ideals of endurance, discipline and of military self-sacrifice. Identification with Sparta could also be used to justify ideas of domination over Germany's eastern neighbours. Helen Roche is the first to examine this still sensitive topic systematically and in depth. She collects and analyses official and published German evocations of Sparta but also, and remarkably, reconstructs the experiences of German children taught to be 'little Spartans' in the Prussian Cadet Corps and National Socialist elite schools, the Napolas. In treating the final, and gravest, period of this process, the author has personally collected testimony from numerous surviving German witnesses who attended the Napolas as children in the early 1940s. That testimony is presented here, in a work which is likely to proof definitive, not only for its treasury of new information, but for its elegant - and humane - analysis.
Author |
: Xenophon |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501718519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501718517 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shorter Writings by : Xenophon
This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; Agesilaus; Regime of the Lacedaemonians; Regime of the Athenians; Ways and Means, or On Revenue; The Skilled Cavalry Commander; On Horsemanship; and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs.
Author |
: Plutarch |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2005-05-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141925509 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141925507 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Sparta by : Plutarch
Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who also disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep chasm, introduced a gruelling regime of military training for boys, and treated their serfs brutally. Rich in anecdote and detail, Plutarch's writing brings to life the personalities and achievements of Sparta with unparalleled flair and humanity.
Author |
: Hugh Liebert |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2016-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316790953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316790959 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plutarch's Politics by : Hugh Liebert
Plutarch's Lives were once treasured. Today they are studied by classicists, known vaguely, if at all, by the educated public, and are virtually unknown to students of ancient political thought. The central claim of this book is that Plutarch shows how the political form of the city can satisfy an individual's desire for honor, even under the horizon of empire. Plutarch's argument turns on the difference between Sparta and Rome. Both cities stimulated their citizens' desire for honor, but Sparta remained a city by linking honor to what could be seen first-hand, whereas Rome became an empire by liberating honor from the shackles of the visible. Even under the rule of a distant power, however, allegiances and political actions tied to the visible world of the city remained. By resurrecting statesmen who thrived in autonomous cities, Plutarch hoped to rekindle some sense of the city's enduring appeal.