Название: The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
Автор: Jennifer T. Roberts
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199996644 |
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 448
Размер: 7,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved.