"Sparta's Second Attic War" by Paul Anthony Rahe

Sparta's Second Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C. Paul Anthony Rahe

Series:
Yale Library of Military History
Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
08 Sep 2020
ISBN:
9780300242621
Imprint:
Yale University Press
Dimensions:
408 pages: 235 x 156mm
Illustrations:
30 b-w illus.

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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.

Paul A. Rahe studied ancient history at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, then later at Yale. He holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is professor of history.

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