The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jennifer T. RobertsSeries:Ancient Warfare and CivilizationPublish date:2019-05-01Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190940881ISBN-10:190940883UPC:9780190940881Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, AncientBook Topic:Ancient, GreeceSize:8.90 x 5.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCD9YX8WV1
The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved. While the...
Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190940881ISBN-10:190940883UPC:9780190940881Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, AncientBook Topic:Ancient, GreeceSize:8.90 x 5.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCD9YX8WV1
Jennifer T. Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of Athens on Trial: The Anti-Democratic Tradition in Western Thought and Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction, and editor (with Walter Blanco) of the Norton Critical Editions of Herodotus' The Histories and Thucydides' The Peloponnesian...
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