Thucydides and Sparta edited by Anton Powell, Paula Debnar
English | February 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1910589756 | True PDF | 285 pages | 13.7 MB
Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his information on the subject is more scattered and implicit. Scholars in recent decades have made progress in teasing out the sense of Thucydides' often lapidary remarks on Sparta.
