Athens and Sparta

Athens and SpartaFrom an award winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities. Packed with intrigue and the politics of empire, revolution, and war, this accessible history of a tangled relationship between nations might strike some readers, the author warns, as uncomfortably relevant. New York Times No period has more profoundly influenced the Western world than classical Greece, and at its center stood

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