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Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece

Goldsworthy, Adrian

Hardcover

Ancient GreeceGeneral Military HistoryGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 1541619986
ISBN13: 9781541619982
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 640
Weight: 2.00
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities.

Packed with intrigue and the politics of empire, revolution, and war, this accessible history of a tangled relationship between nations might strike some readers, the author warns, as 'uncomfortably relevant.' --New York Times

No period has more profoundly influenced the Western world than classical Greece, and at its center stood two cities: Athens and Sparta. Side by side, they beat the Persians, the only superpower of that age. Yet later, they spread conflict and destruction throughout the eastern Mediterranean, culminating in the horrors of the Peloponnesian War.

Athens and Sparta tells the definitive history of the relationship between brutal, militaristic Sparta and brash, radically democratic Athens. Eminent historian Adrian Goldsworthy narrates their incredible rise to prominence and how they became allies, rivals, and enemies. Ultimately, Goldsworthy shows that Athens and Sparta were more than competitors vying for power. They were polar opposites in ideology and culture, both driven by the Greek longing to excel, who led radically different experiments in how to run a state.

A remarkable account of ancient Greece at its height, this is the tale of the two cities that helped build it--before almost tearing it apart.

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