Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. The State of the Nation - Sparta in 478 BC -- 2. The First Cracks -- 3. The Misadventures of Pausanias -- 4. The Slide into War -- 5. The Archidamian War -- 6. Sphacteria and the Pea…
Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans were masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. This book examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved social issues to bring down the nat…
