Spartan general Pausanias lived a life which encapsulated the Ancient Greek city state, killed by his own people for ...

It was the year 467 BC when an enraged woman approached the door of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos in Sparta and placed a brick with an inscription that read: Unworthy of being a Spartan, you are ...

This volume is the first of a three part series by Prof. Rahe (Hillsdale College) that explores the origins and evolution of Sparta’s political and military strategy. Rahe opens with opens with some ...

The Peloponnesian War, which for almost three decades pitted Spartans against Athenians for supremacy in the Hellenic world, concluded in 404 B.C. with the victory of the Spartans. However, the true ...

Following the release of two RTS leviathans (Supreme Commander and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars) in quick succession, it was always going to be hard for any new strategy game to make a serious ...

The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...

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In this masterly account of some of the most formative events of the ancient world, Rahe describes how the Greeks resisted the military might wielded by the Persian emperors Darius and Xerxes during ...

At the beginning of his new book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, Paul Rahe quotes a passage from John Stuart Mill—an 1846 passage in which Mill writes that Ancient Greek history is ...