Sparta And The Commemoration Of War

Author : Matthew A. Sears
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316519457
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparta and the Commemoration of War written by Matthew A. Sears and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the Spartan commemoration of war prompts reconsideration of the contemporary relationship between conflict and memory.

Author : Matthew A. Sears
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009021109
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparta and the Commemoration of War written by Matthew A. Sears and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspiring soldiers with rousing verse in the seventh century BCE to inscriptions celebrating the 300's last stand at Thermopylae, and from Spartan imperialists posing as liberators during the Peloponnesian War to the modern reception of the Spartan as a brave warrior defending the “West”, Sparta has had an outsized role in how warfare is framed and remembered. This image has also been distorted by the Spartans themselves and their later interpreters. While debates continue to rage about the appropriateness of monuments to supposed war heroes in our civic squares, this authoritative and engaging book suggests that how the Spartans commemorated their military past, and how this shaped their military future, has perhaps never been more pertinent.

Author : Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589543
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparta and War written by Stephen Hodkinson and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta's most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira explores the paradox that Sparta's cavalry was an undistinguished institution. Jean Ducat conducts the most thorough study to date of Sparta's official cowards, the 'tremblers'. Anton Powell asks why Sparta chose not to destroy Athens after the Peloponnesian War. And Stephen Hodkinson argues that the image of Spartan society as militaristic may after all be a?mirage. This is the sixth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, founded by Powell and Hodkinson in 1988. The series has established itself as the main forum for the study of Spartan history.

Author : Bernard William Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great War Between Athens and Sparta written by Bernard William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588364909
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A War Like No Other written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present. Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato. Hanson’s perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like America’s own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century’s “red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present. Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.

Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249268
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparta's First Attic War written by Paul Anthony Rahe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “provocative, intriguing and cogently argued” exploration of the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance (David Stuttard, Classics for All). During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift opened and an intense, strategic rivalry began. In a continuation of his series on ancient Sparta, noted historian Paul Rahe examines the grounds for their alliance, the reasons for its eventual collapse, and the first stage in an enduring conflict that would wreak havoc on Greece for six decades. Throughout, Rahe argues that the alliance between Sparta and Athens and their eventual rivalry were extensions of their domestic policy, and that the grand strategy each articulated in the wake of the Persian Wars and the conflict that arose in due course grew out of the opposed material interests and moral imperatives inherent in their different regimes. Praise for the series “Persuasive.” —New York Times Book Review “[Rahe] has an excellent eye for military logistics.” —Wall Street Journal

Author : Buckler John Beck Hans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511457265
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC written by Buckler John Beck Hans and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026893026
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books.

Author : Bernard William Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780405047756
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great War Between Athens and Sparta written by Bernard William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Greeley Misenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781072555421
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thucydides' Other "Traps" written by Alan Greeley Misenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of a "Thucydides Trap" that will ensnare China and the United States in a 21st century conflict-much as the rising power of Athens alarmed Sparta and made war "inevitable" between the Aegean superpowers of the 5th century BCE-has received global attention since entering the international relations lexicon 6 years ago. Scholars, journalists, bloggers, and politicians in many countries, notably China, have embraced this beguiling metaphor, coined by Harvard political science professor Graham Allison, as a framework for examining the likelihood of a Sino-American war. This case study examines the Thucydides Trap metaphor and the response it has elicited. Hewing closely to what the historian of the Peloponnesian War actually says about the causes and inevitability of war, it argues that, while Thucydides' text does not support Allison's normative assertion about the "inevitable" result of an encounter between "rising" and "ruling" powers, the History of the Peloponnesian War (hereafter, History) does identify elements of leadership and political dynamic that bear directly on whether a clash of interests between two states is resolved through peaceful means or escalates to war. It is precisely because war typically begins with a considered decision by a national command authority to reject other options and mobilize for conflict (and thus always entails an element of choice) that insight from Thucydides' History remains relevant and beneficial for the contemporary strategist, or citizen, concerned in such decisions.Accordingly, this case study concludes that the Thucydides Trap, as conceived and presented by Graham Allison, draws welcome attention both to Thucydides and to the pitfalls of great power competition, but fails as a heuristic device or predictive tool in the analysis of contemporary events. Allison's metaphor offers, at best, a potentially misleading over-simplification of Thucydides' nuanced and problematic account of the origins of the epochal conflict that defined his age. Moreover, it overlooks actual insights from the History that can help political decisionmakers-including, but not limited to, those of the United States and China-either avoid war or, if ignored, pose genuine policy "traps" that can make an avoidable war more likely, and a necessary war more costly.