Long before Xerxes reached Thermopylae, Persia’s kings were already asking a dangerous question, who are the Spartans. This chapter traces the origins of Spartan power, Lycurgus’ half-mythic ...

This volume is the first of a three part series by Prof. Rahe (Hillsdale College) that explores the origins and evolution of Sparta’s political and military strategy. Rahe opens with opens with some ...

The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...

The history of classical Greece is largely defined by divisions, both within and between city-states. Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of-power ...

A rebel tyrant arrives in Sparta with a map of the world, asking for help against an empire that already spans continents. This chapter follows the Ionian Revolt, the fall of Miletus, and the shock of ...

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In this masterly account of some of the most formative events of the ancient world, Rahe describes how the Greeks resisted the military might wielded by the Persian emperors Darius and Xerxes during ...

At the beginning of his new book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, Paul Rahe quotes a passage from John Stuart Mill—an 1846 passage in which Mill writes that Ancient Greek history is ...