Sparta's Second Attic War : the grand strategy of classical Sparta, 446-418 b.c. / Paul A. Rahe.

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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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Yale library of military history.
Main Author: Rahe, Paul Anthony (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Series:Yale library of military history.
Subjects:
Sparta (Extinct city) > History, Military.
Greece > History > Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
Greece.
Greece > Sparta (Extinct city)
479-431 B.C.
History.
Military history.
Genre:
History.
Military history.
Physical Description:xvii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Incomplete Contents:
  • Introduction : an enduring strategic rivalry
  • Prologue : a sudden reversal
  • Part I. The hatch and brood of time. An uneasy truce ; Pericles' calculated risk ; A tug of war
  • Part II. Fortune's wheel. A loss of strategic focus ; Lacedaemon at bay
  • Part III. A peace to end all peace. Mutual exhaustion ; The Peloponnesus in flux ; An opportunity squandered
  • Epilogue : the end of the Athenian challenge.