TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rahe,Paul Anthony
TI  - The Spartan regime: its character, origins, and grand strategy 
T2  - [The Yale library of military history]
SN  - 9780300224610
AV  - DF261.S8 R34 2016eb
U1  - 938.9 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - Greece
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - fast
KW  - Politik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Sparta (Extinct city)
KW  - History
KW  - Sparta
KW  - Grèce antique
KW  - rero
KW  - Sparte (Grèce)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction, The allure of Lacedaemon -- Prologue, The Spartan enigma -- Paideía -- Politeía -- Conquest -- Politics and geopolitics -- Conclusion, A grand strategy for Lacedaemon -- Appendix 1, Land tenure in archaic Sparta -- Appendix 2, The néoi at Sparta
N2  - For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, considered an ideal of liberty in the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the modern totalitarian state by many twentieth-century scholars has long remained a mystery. In a bold new approach to historical study, noted historian Paul Rahe attempts to unravel the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, in order to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and daily life in Lacedaemon than has previously appeared in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians in the Aegean
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