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The end of Sparta

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An edition of The end of Sparta (2011)

The end of Sparta

a novel

1st U.S. ed.
  • 5 Want to read

In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans crushed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for two centuries. We follow these epic historical events through the eyes of Mêlon, a farmer who has left his fields to serve with Epaminondas-swept up, against his better judgment, in the fever to spread democracy even as he yearns to return to his pastoral hillside. With a scholar's depth of knowledge and a novelist's vivid imagination, Hanson re-creates the ancient world down to its intimate details-from the weight of a spear in a soldier's hand to the peculiar camaraderie of a slave and master who go into battle side by side.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Language
English
Pages
445

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The end of Sparta: a novel
2011, Bloomsbury USA
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3608.A7233 E63 2011, PS3608.A7233E63 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
445

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24839381M
Internet Archive
endofspartanovel00hans
ISBN 10
1608191648
ISBN 13
9781608191642
LCCN
2011013805
OCLC/WorldCat
701806408

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