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Bloomsbury Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 11, 2011
464 pages
ISBN: 1608191648
EAN: 9781608191642
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n 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. The End of Sparta is a stirring
drama and a rich, absorbing reading experience.
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