Full name: The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece

Author: Paul Cartledge Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Classic, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400078851 1400078857

The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world's leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and explores the tremendous influence the Spartans had on their world and even on ours. Paul Cartledge brings to life figures like legendary founding father Lycurgus and King Leonidas, who embodied the heroism so closely identified with this unique culture, and he shows how Spartan women enjoyed an unusually dominant and powerful role in this hyper-masculine society. Based firmly on original sources, The Spartans is the definitive book about one of the most fascinating cultures of ancient Greece. Similar books: The Rise Of The Greeks by Michael Grant The Greek Achievement by Charles Freeman The Classical Greeks by Michael Grant The Ancient Greeks by M. I. Finley Ancient Greece by Sarah B. Pomeroy The Greek Experience by Maurice Bowra Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill Early Greece by Oswyn Murray The Greeks by H. D. F. Kitto The Hellenistic world by F. W. Walbank Introducing the Ancient Greeks by Edith Hall The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber Travelling Heroes by Robin Lane Fox Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth Courtesans and Fishcakes by James Davidson Alexander the Great by Paul Cartledge A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson