e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Choice Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Rahe, Paul Anthony.
Subjects
Sparta (Extinct city) -- History.
Sparta (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Rahe, Paul Anthony.
by title:
The grand strategy o...
by call number:
938.9 R147g
Search the Web
Rahe, Paul Anthony.
Sparta (Extinct city) -- History.
Sparta (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs.
MARC Display
The grand strategy of classical
Sparta
: the Persian challenge / Paul A. Rahe.
by
Rahe, Paul Anthony.
Yale University Press, [2015]
Call #:
938.9 R147g
Subjects
Sparta
(
Extinct
city
)
--
History.
Sparta
(
Extinct
city
)
--
Social
life
and
customs
.
Series
Yale library of military history.
ISBN:
9780300116427 (hc.)
030011642X (hc.)
Alternate title:
Classical
Sparta
: the Persian challenge
Description:
xiv, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: a regime and its grand strategy
--
A shadow growing the east
--
Mainland defense
--
A Ionian revolt
--
The first round
--
The formation of the Hellenic League
--
Thermopylae and Artemisium
--
Salamis
--
Plataea and Mycale
--
Epilogue: the aftermath.
Summary:
More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. Historian Paul Rahe argues that
Sparta
was responsible for the initial establishment of the Hellenic defensive coalition and was, in fact, the most essential player in its ultimate victory. Drawing from an impressive range of ancient sources, including Herodotus and Plutarch, the author veers from the traditional Atheno-centric view of the Greco-Persian Wars to examine from a Spartan perspective the grand strategy that halted the Persian juggernaut. Rahe provides a fascinating, detailed picture of
life
in
Sparta
circa 480 B.C., revealing how the Spartans' form of government and the regimen to which they subjected themselves instilled within them the pride, confidence, discipline, and discernment necessary to forge an alliance that would stand firm against a great empire, driven by religious fervor, that held sway over two-fifths of the human race.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
938.9 R147g
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.