Full name: Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins

Author: J. E. Lendon Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465015061 9780465031436 0465015069 0465031439

Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious 10 Years' War (431-421) against grim Sparta--the 1st decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land & sea, sieges, sacks, raids, & deeds of cruelty & guile--along with courageous acts of mercy, surprising charity, austere restraint & arrogant resistance. Recounting the rise of democratic Athens to great-power status, & the resulting fury of authoritarian Sparta, Greece's traditional leader, Lendon portrays the causes & strategy of the war as a duel over national honor, a series of acts of revenge. A story of new pride challenging old, Song of Wrath is the 1st work of Ancient Greek history for the post-cold-war generation. Similar books: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge The Ancient Greeks by M. I. Finley A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson The Rise Of The Greeks by Michael Grant The Greek Achievement by Charles Freeman The Classical Greeks by Michael Grant The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Introducing the Ancient Greeks by Edith Hall The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan The Spartans by Paul Cartledge The Western Way of War by Victor Davis Hanson The Greek Experience by Maurice Bowra Ancient Greece by Sarah B. Pomeroy The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer