Prince Of Sparta

Author : Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618241061

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Prince of Sparta by Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling Pdf

THE HELOT WAR¾PART II Together the new Royal Spartan Army and its instructors, the 5th Battalion of Falkenberg's Mercenary Legion, have defeated the initial assault of Grand Senator Bronson's terrorist hordes and their techno-ninja allies. But Bronson's hatred of Sparta and the Legion was as strong as ever; thanks to his limitless wealth and high office, the Helots were able to reform, retreat¾and fight again. This time they are doing better. Besieged within, blockaded by the CoDominium without, Sparta grimly fights to preserve its precious experiment in liberty. But just as it seems that the Spartans and their allies might prevail, Bronson has supplied his minions with a battle plan that will bring something worse than a Helot victory: Codename Endlosung-Final Solution. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
ISBN : OCLC:902679211

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Prince of Sparta by Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling Pdf

Author : Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743435567

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The Prince by Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling Pdf

The bestselling saga of Falkenberg's legion, complete in one huge volume, this contains stories that were originally published in four parts as "Falkenberg's Legion, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell the Spartans" and "Prince of Sparta."

Author : K. M. T. Chrimes,Kathleen Mary Tyrer Chrimes Atkinson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 0719057418

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Ancient Sparta by K. M. T. Chrimes,Kathleen Mary Tyrer Chrimes Atkinson Pdf

This substantial study examines Hellenistic and Roman Sparta, based on epigraphical evidence, before tracing Sparta's constitutiona and social organisation back to its remote past.

Author : Helen Roche
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589175

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Sparta's German Children by Helen Roche Pdf

From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta. From older children, from teachers in the classroom, and from higher authority first in Prussia, then in Imperial and National Socialist Germany, came images of Sparta designed to inculcate ideals of endurance, discipline and of military self-sacrifice. Identification with Sparta could also be used to justify ideas of domination over Germany's eastern neighbours. Helen Roche is the first to examine this still sensitive topic systematically and in depth. She collects and analyses official and published German evocations of Sparta but also, and remarkably, reconstructs the experiences of German children taught to be 'little Spartans' in the Prussian Cadet Corps and National Socialist elite schools, the Napolas. In treating the final, and gravest, period of this process, the author has personally collected testimony from numerous surviving German witnesses who attended the Napolas as children in the early 1940s. That testimony is presented here, in a work which is likely to proof definitive, not only for its treasury of new information, but for its elegant - and humane - analysis.

Author : T. S. Chaudhry
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782797494

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The Queen of Sparta by T. S. Chaudhry Pdf

Xerxes, the Great King of Persia invades Greece in 480 B.C. at the head of a massive army. Three hundred Spartans and King Leonidas die heroically blocking the Persian advance at the pass of Thermopylae. The Persians are poised to conquer all of Greece. The only one standing in their way is a woman – Gorgo, Queen of Sparta. Though history has relegated her role to that of a bystander, what if she played a central role in the Greek resistance to the Persian invasion. What if she kept her true role a secret in order to play it more effectively? What if she was hiding other secrets too – dark secrets of murder and vengeance? What if the only person who truly appreciated her genius was an enemy prisoner whom she has vowed to kill? What if after their victory, the Greeks started to turn on each other? What if, eventually, Gorgo had to choose between the security of Sparta and safety of her son? And what if the only one who could find a way out is the same prisoner who had once fought against the Spartans?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009382731

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Sparta by Anonim Pdf

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Sparta, with accompanying maps, illustrations, glossary, chronology and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions, many of these being otherwise difficult for students to access.

Author : Helena P. Schrader
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604944747

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Leonidas of Sparta by Helena P. Schrader Pdf

The smaller of twins, born long after two elder brothers, Leonidas was considered an afterthought from birth -- even by his mother. Lucky not to be killed for being undersized, he was not raised as a prince like his eldest brother, Cleomenes, who was heir to the throne, but instead had to endure the harsh upbringing of ordinary Spartan youth. Barefoot, always a little hungry, and subject to harsh discipline, Leonidas had to prove himself worthy of Spartan citizenship. Struggling to survive without disgrace, he never expected that one day he would be king or chosen to command the combined Greek forces fighting a Persian invasion. But these were formative years that would one day make him the most famous Spartan of them all: the hero of Thermopylae. This is the first book in a trilogy of biographical novels about Leonidas of Sparta. This first book describes his childhood in the infamous Spartan agoge. The second will focus on his years as an ordinary citizen, and the third will describe his reign and death. About the Author Helena P. Schrader holds a PhD in history from the University of Hamburg, which she earned with her groundbreaking biography of General Friedrich Olbricht, the mastermind behind the Valkyrie plot against Hitler. She has published four nonfiction works on modern history and has been published in academic journals including Sparta: Journal of Ancient Spartan and Greek History. Helena has done extensive research on ancient and archaic Sparta. She has combined her research with common sense and a deep understanding of human nature to create a refreshingly unorthodox portrayal of Spartan society in this biographical trilogy of Leonidas, as well as in her three previously published novels, The Olympic Charioteer, Are They Singing in Sparta? and Spartan Slave, Spartan Queen. Visit her website at www.helena-schrader.com or learn more about Sparta from her website Sparta Reconsidered at www.elysiumgates.com/ helena.

Author : Conn Iggulden
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405921527

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The Falcon of Sparta by Conn Iggulden Pdf

THE GRIPPING ADVENTURE BASED ON AN EPIC TRUE STORY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PERFECT FOR FANS OF BERNARD CORNWELL 'HIS FINEST NOVEL TO DATE . . . THE BATTLE SCENES ARE THRILLING' SUNDAY EXPRESS __________ In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. 401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. But the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones . . . Battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors . . . __________ 'The pace is nail-biting' THE TIMES Praise for Conn Iggulden: 'Here is a master at work. There is no one better at this' GILES KRISTIAN 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life. I'm blown away' ANTHONY RICHES 'Iggulden tells an absolutely cracking story...the pace is nail-biting and the set dressing magnificent' THE TIMES 'An epic piece of historical fiction, full of political intrigue and vivid action' ROBERT FABBRI 'Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic, historical fiction' DAILY MIRROR Author's novel, Empire was a Sunday Times bestseller May 2023

Author : Kathleen Mary Tyrer Chrimes Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Sparta (Extinct city)
ISBN : UGA:32108000960479

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Ancient Sparta by Kathleen Mary Tyrer Chrimes Atkinson Pdf

Author : Stephen Hodkinson,Anton Powell
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589540

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Sparta and War by Stephen Hodkinson,Anton Powell Pdf

Ten new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta's most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira explores the paradox that Sparta's cavalry was an undistinguished institution. Jean Ducat conducts the most thorough study to date of Sparta's official cowards, the 'tremblers'. Anton Powell asks why Sparta chose not to destroy Athens after the Peloponnesian War. And Stephen Hodkinson argues that the image of Spartan society as militaristic may after all be a?mirage. This is the sixth volume from the International Sparta Seminar, founded by Powell and Hodkinson in 1988. The series has established itself as the main forum for the study of Spartan history.

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119072386

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A Companion to Sparta by Anton Powell Pdf

The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical Greece Features in-depth coverage of Sparta history and culture contributed by an international cast including almost every noted specialist and scholar in the field Provides over a dozen images of Spartan art that reveal the evolution of everyday life in Sparta Sheds new light on a modern controversy relating to changes in Spartan society from the Archaic to Classical periods

Author : Charles Rollin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : MINN:31951002028302T

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The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians by Charles Rollin Pdf

Author : Helena P. Schrader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 059547067X

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Spartan Slave, Spartan Queen by Helena P. Schrader Pdf

In ancient Sparta during the Second Messenian War, two women, one beautiful and one ugly, are captured and enslaved in the same raid. This is the story of how each responds to their new situation and the women they meet in Sparta. Niobe's beauty is so great that it captures the attention of the Messenian leader, Aristomenes. He makes her a cherished concubine-until the Spartan "Scourge of Messenia," Agesandros, captures Aristomenes' palace. Niobe suddenly finds herself a slave, and the spoils of the Spartan prince Anaxilas. Unlike the beautiful and coveted Niobe, Mika is so disfigured by warts that her own uncles sold her into slavery. She becomes the spoils not of a prince but of Agesandros' squire, Leon, a slave himself. He sends her back to serve his master's wife, Alethea, in Sparta. While Niobe provokes the hostility of the Spartan Queen; Mika encounters the kindness of Alethea, and her beautiful but spirited daughter, Kassia. Soon Anaxilas turns his affections from Niobe to Kassia, while Mika falls hopelessly in love with Leon, and Leon covets only the affection of Niobe. This book picks up where Are They Singing in Sparta? left off, and although the novel revolves around unrequited love on all sides, it is really a reflection on what beauty is and how it affects human interactions-with a surprise ending.

Author : Charles Rollin,James Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : OSU:32435020048005

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The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians by Charles Rollin,James Bell Pdf