Sparta's Second Attic War

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 extended truce. He traces the course of the war that then took place, he examines and assesses the strategy each community pursued and the tactics adopted, and he explains how and why mutual exhaustion forced on these two powers yet another truce doomed to fail. At stake for each of the two peoples caught up in this enduring strategic rivalry, as Rahe shows, was nothing less than the survival of its political regime and of the peculiar way of life to which that regime gave rise.

Cel mai recent volum din istoria expansiva a lui Paul Rahe a raspunsului lui Sparta la provocarile ridicate in marea sa strategie In continuarea seriei sale multivolume despre Sparta antica, Paul Rahe povesteste a doua etapa a luptei epice de sase decenii dintre Sparta si Atena. care a izbucnit prima oara la saptesprezece ani dupa victoria lor comuna in razboaiele persane.