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By Michael Whitby

This quantity introduces the reader to each vital point of the society of Sparta, the dominant energy in southern Greece from the 7th century B.C. and the nice rival of Athens within the 5th and fourth centuries. Michael Whitby offers essays on key points of Spartan historical past and society, by way of a few of the prime classicists on the earth, comparable to Paul Cartledge, Anton Powell, and Stephen Hodkinson.

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