The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-heroes of Ancient Greece
A Historical, Greece, Ancient History book. Paul Cartledge describes this work as his first attempt to write a properly general history of...
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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Paul Cartledge describes this work as his first attempt to write a properly general history of Sparta. It would not be wholly inaccurate to describe his style as, on the one hand, too erudite to be considered truly popular, yet on the other hand, too informal to be truly academic. He lands, then, in the unfortunate territory of patronizing... In this book (which seems to be some sort of companion piece to a TV series), which is aimed more toward the general reader than the academic, Cartledge sets out to cover the span of Spartan history, from the time of Helen through the time of Caesar Augustus. There are, indeed, a lot of dates and unfamiliar names in this brief survey,... This is a very poorly structured book. It is very much a shame that Cartledge's intuitive knowledge on Sparta is wasted on a book that is supposed to describe the history or culture in vain (after finishing the book I fail to see which he was trying to accomplish). The chronology of the history is frequently and for long durations interrupted...
