A superb book....Cartledge offers the gereral reader the fruits of his own rich shcolarship in an accessible form. The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civlization before or since:a sociely of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as self-sacrifice, community endeavor, and achievement against all odds...this is a must read for the history and general reader.

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