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Sparta's Second Attic War
- Author
- Paul A. Rahe
- Narrator
- Paul A. Rahe
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 3 November 2020
- Run Time
- 15 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The latest volume in Paul Rahe’s expansive history of Sparta’s response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy
In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six decades long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars. Rahe explores how and why open warfare between these two erstwhile allies broke out a second time, after they had negotiated an extended truce. He traces the course of the war that then took place, he examines and assesses the strategy each community pursued and the tactics adopted, and he explains how and why mutual exhaustion forced on these two powers yet another truce doomed to fail.
At stake for each of the two peoples caught up in this enduring strategic rivalry, as Rahe shows, was nothing less than the survival of its political regime and of the peculiar way of life to which that regime gave rise.
Critics Review
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“Paul Rahe stands out as one of the world’s leading scholars on the Peloponnesian War. His latest volume on Sparta’s protracted struggle with Athens, Sparta’s Second Attic War, provides insight into enduring problems of politics and strategy in wartime, into why and how peoples fight, both in the ancient world and in our own troubled times.”
John H. Maurer, Naval War College
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Details
- Author
- Paul A. Rahe
- Narrator
- Paul A. Rahe
- Duration
- 15 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781094155500
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Ancient history, European history
Synopsis
The latest volume in Paul Rahe’s expansive history of Sparta’s response to the challenges posed to its grand strategyIn a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six decades long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars. Rahe explores how and why open warfare between these two erstwhile allies broke out a second time, after they had negotiated an extended truce. He traces the course of the war that then took place, he examines and assesses the strategy each community pursued and the tactics adopted, and he explains how and why mutual exhaustion forced on these two powers yet another truce doomed to fail.At stake for each of the two peoples caught up in this enduring strategic rivalry, as Rahe shows, was nothing less than the survival of its political regime and of the peculiar way of life to which that regime gave rise.
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