The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-heroes of Ancient Greece
A Cultural, Nonfiction, History book. This is a bad book. That doesn't change the fact that Cartledge is an eminent authority on Sparta...
The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world’s leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and explores the tremendous influence the Spartans had on their world and even on ours. Paul Cartledge brings to life figures like legendary founding father Lycurgus and King Leonidas, who embodied the heroism so closely identified with this unique culture, and he shows how Spartan women enjoyed an unusually dominant and powerful role in this hyper-masculine society. Based firmly on original sources, The Spartans is the definitive book about one of the most fascinating cultures of ancient Greece.
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9781400078851 / 1400078857
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Hugely informative book that laid to rest a few long held misconceptions I had regarding Sparta, and provided me with a wealth of other information regarding the political, religious and social climate. Of particular interest to me was the rather progressive (in comparison to other cultures of the time) attitude towards the role of... This is a bad book. That doesn't change the fact that Cartledge is an eminent authority on Sparta and uniquely well-qualified from a research perspective to write this book. The demands of academic history, however, are not the same as those for a book produced for general consumption. This volume fails on at least three counts. First,... 1 Star because Cartledge drops a ton of information which confuses the reader.
