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The battle of Leuctra, 371 BC ⚔️ How did Sparta lose its military power?

Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...
Publishers Weekly

The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta and the Struggle for Greece

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...
UPI

Greece announces discovery of ancient palace near Sparta

SPARTA, Greece, Aug. 25 (UPI) --On Tuesday, Greece's culture ministry announced the discovery of an ancient Mycenaean palace near Sparta. The palatial remnants were unearthed at the archaeological ...
The Herald-Dispatch

Edwina Pendarvis: MU professor’s interest in Greek history shines in debut novel, 'The Walls of Sparta'

The year 2020 has been hard in so many ways for so many people. Binge-watching and binge-reading and even binge-cooking have helped some of us through it. For people who like the idea of visiting such ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Muse of History’ Review: Ancient Greece’s Long Shadow

A“myth of the past” is necessary to justify “contemporary preoccupations,” writes Oswyn Murray, an emeritus fellow at Oxford. This is a profound realization, and it leads the author to a rousing ...