Sparta
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415939577
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history; History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Greece; History & Philosophy; History / Ancient / Rome; Ancient - Rome
First sentence: Victor Ehrenberg, in later life, described the early history of Sparta as a kind of Battleground for modern historians, which called for the 'intellectual gymnastics' in which he had once indulged.