A History of Sparta

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Bristol Classical Paperbacks, 1995 - History - 160 pages
"This standard account of Spartan history, now published in a third edition, begins with the foundation of Sparta in the tenth century BC. It covers the gradual expansion of Sparta's authority in the Peloponnese, her leadership of the Greeks against the Persians, the rivalry with Athens, her short period of complete supremacy in Greece until 371, and the collapse which followed down to the Roman conquest.."--

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