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Author : Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Release : 2007-07-31
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 609/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spartan by : Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Download or read book Spartan written by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. This book was released on 2007-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of passion, courage and magic, Spartan is an enthralling novel of the ancient world.
Author : Nigel M. Kennell
Release : 2011-09-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 531/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spartans by : Nigel M. Kennell
Download or read book Spartans written by Nigel M. Kennell. This book was released on 2011-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity. Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan Takes into account new specialist scholarship and research published in Greek, which is not readily available elsewhere Places Spartan society into its wider Greek context
Author : Jerry Pournelle
Release : 1991-06-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 951/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Go Tell the Spartans by : Jerry Pournelle
Download or read book Go Tell the Spartans written by Jerry Pournelle. This book was released on 1991-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranger, go and tell the Spartans That we lie here, obedient to their commands. Since the late 20th century, the Soviet-American CoDominium had kept the peace, both on Earth and among the stars. But now the CoDominium is dying, and its death-throes will be terrible; already the nations arm for their final battle. With Earth doomed, mankind's sole hope for a future worth having rests on a planet called Sparta, a planet where American idealists have raised once more the banner of a liberty that has been forgotten amid the corruptions and tyrannies of Earth. The Spartans know that they must be strong to survive; that is why they hired John Christian Falkenberg and his Legion to train them. What the Spartans do not know is that Falkenberg's enemies have become their own¾that Grand Senator Bronson's techno-ninja will follow the Legion to Sparta, and there wreak a terrible vengeance aimed at ending the Spartan experiment before it has fairly begun . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Andrew J. Bayliss
Release : 2020-05-25
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 084/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Spartans by : Andrew J. Bayliss
Download or read book The Spartans written by Andrew J. Bayliss. This book was released on 2020-05-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on the silver screen, as he decides to lead his 300 warriors to their deaths at Thermopylae. But what was Sparta? The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians called themselves 'equals' or peers, but their equality was reliant on the ruthless exploitation of the indigenous population known as helots. The Spartans' often bizarre rules and practices have the capacity to horrify as much they do to fascinate us today. Athenian writers were intrigued and appalled in equal measure by a society where weak or disabled babies were said to have been examined carefully by state officials before being dumped off the edge of a cliff. Even today their lurid stories have shaped our image of Sparta; a society in which cowards were forced to shave off half their beards, to dress differently from their peers, and who were ultimately shunned to the extent that suicide seemed preferable. Equally appalling to us today is the brutal krypteia, a Spartan rite of passage where teenagers were sent into the countryside armed with a knife and ordered to eliminate the biggest and most dangerous helots. But the truth behind these stories of the exotic other can be hard to discover, lost amongst the legend of Sparta which was even perpetuated by later Spartans, who ran a thriving tourist industry that exaggerated the famed brutality of their ancestors. As Andrew Bayliss explores in this book, there was also much to admire in ancient Sparta, such as the Spartans' state-run education system which catered even to girls, or the fact that Sparta was almost unparalleled in the pre-modern world in allowing women a clear voice, with no fewer than forty sayings by Spartan women preserved in our sources. This book reveals the best and the worst of the Spartans, separating myth from reality.
Author : Paul Dinzeo
Release : 2012
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 840/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spartans by : Paul Dinzeo
Download or read book Spartans written by Paul Dinzeo. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging images accompany information about Spartans. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
