Name: Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry that Shaped Ancient Greece
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
ISBN: 9781800245426

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Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry that Shaped Ancient Greece

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adrian Goldsworthy

Publisher

Apollo

Year

2026

Pages

672

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4x15.3 cm

ISBN13

9781800245426

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry that Shaped Ancient Greece

Adrian Goldsworthy (Author) · Apollo · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry that Shaped Ancient Greece"

Two great cities. One fierce rivalry. Countless untold stories.

Athens and Sparta were the two big players in Ancient Greece. United, they helped lead the Greeks in defeating the great Persian invasion. Divided, they spread conflict and destruction throughout the eastern Mediterranean. They were not simply rivals for power, but polar opposites in culture and ideology: Athens was the outward looking, radical democracy with a maritime empire whilst Sparta was militaristic, rigidly disciplined and brutal. Both were experiments in how to run a state, epitomising the extremes of the Greek longing to excel.

This is a story of politics and war, but also of culture. In Athens, philosophers dissected the physical and moral world, writers spun forth comedy and drama, and new ideas filled the city. Athens could be vulgar and cruel, but no other state has ever allowed thousands of citizens to debate its laws freely. Sparta was innovative in other ways, with a society divided into strict class groups and an astonishing focus on military training. Both cities were paradoxes – they were at once remarkably ordered and surprisingly prone to savagery.

Athens and Sparta tells a remarkable story of the drama and extremity of human behaviour. It draws on ancient sources and modern discoveries and boasts a wide-ranging cast of characters – statesmen, lawgivers, rabble-rousers, philosophers, artists, courtesans, wives and heroes. The history of these cities truly is a microcosm of the human experience, in all its wonder and horror.

Adrian Goldsworthy

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Adrian Goldsworthy es un historiador y escritor británico especializado en la historia de la Antigua Roma. Nació en 1969 en Gran Bretaña y desde joven desarrolló un gran interés por la historia militar y las civilizaciones antiguas.

Estudió Historia Antigua y Moderna en la Universidad de Oxford, donde obtuvo su doctorado. Su investigación se ha centrado especialmente en el ejército romano, las guerras de la República y el Imperio romano, y algunos de sus personajes más importantes.

Goldsworthy ha escrito numerosos libros de historia destinados tanto a especialistas como al público general. Entre sus obras más conocidas se encuentran The Roman Army at War 100 BC–AD 200, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, The Fall of Carthage, Augustus y Pax Romana. Sus libros se caracterizan por explicar acontecimientos históricos complejos de una manera clara y atractiva.

Además de su trabajo académico, Adrian Goldsworthy ha escrito novelas históricas ambientadas en la Antigüedad, combinando hechos históricos con personajes y situaciones de ficción.

Su obra ha contribuido a acercar la historia de Roma a lectores de todo el mundo. Actualmente es reconocido como uno de los autores contemporáneos más destacados en el estudio y divulgación de la historia militar romana.

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