Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 BC

The latest volume in Paul Rahe's expansive history of Sparta's response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy

In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six decades long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars. Rahe explores how and why open warfare between these two erstwhile allies broke out a second time, after they had negotiated an...