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The end of Sparta : a novel

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  • "In this historical novel, the author recreates the world of Epaminondas of Thebes, considered the greatest man of his time by the Greeks and Romans for his leading his undermanned army against the great city-state Sparta and bringing it down."
  • "In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans crushed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for two centuries. We follow these epic historical events through the eyes of Mêlon, a farmer who has left his fields to serve with Epaminondas-swept up, against his better judgment, in the fever to spread democracy even as he yearns to return to his pastoral hillside. With a scholar's depth of knowledge and a novelist's vivid imagination, Hanson re-creates the ancient world down to its intimate details-from the weight of a spear in a soldier's hand to the peculiar camaraderie of a slave and master who go into battle side by side."

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  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"

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  • "The end of Sparta a novel"
  • "End of sparta"
  • "The end of Sparta : a novel"
  • "The end of Sparta : a novel"@en

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