Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta Pb
Paul Cartledge
ISBN: | 9780715630327 |
Publisher: | Duckworth & Co |
Published: | 1 September, 2000 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta Pb
Paul Cartledge
As one of the two Spartan kings, Agesilaos II presided over Sparta's greatest imperial expansion and its collapse as a major power. At his accession in 400 BC, Sparta had recently defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War and was the undisputed leader of the Aegean Greek world; at the time of his death some forty years later, Sparta had been reduced to the status of a mere Peloponnesian squabbler, its role indistinguishable from that of any of a number of other Greek states. Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta is an account of this critical period of Greek history, focusing on a single career. Progressing both chronologically and thematically, the author reveals the principal aspects of Spartan politics and society and appraises the possible causes of Sparta's preciptous decline and fall.
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