Sparta: Unfit for Empire 404-362 BC

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Sparta: Unfit for Empire 404-362 BC

Sparta: Unfit for Empire 404-362 BC

Name: Sparta: Unfit for Empire 404-362 BC
ISBN: 9781848322226

Godfrey Hutchinson

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The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might have been secure. As it was, she embarked on actions that her former allies, Thebes and Korinth, refused to support. The rise of Thebes as a threatening power to Sparta’s control of Greece was largely the result of the brilliant exploits of Epaminondas and Pelopidas whose obvious examination of Spartan tactics allowed them to provide counters to them. While noting the political issues, Godfrey Hutchinson’s focus is upon the strategic and tactical elements of warfare in a period almost wholly coinciding with the reign of the brilliant commander, Agesilaos, one of the joint kings of Sparta, who, astonishingly, campaigned successfully into his eighties

Категории:

Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Год:

2014

Издательство:

Frontline Books, Pen & Sword Books

Язык:

english

Страницы:

296

ISBN 10:

1848322224