A history of ancient Sparta [sound recording] : valor, virtue, and devotion in the Greek golden age / Timothy B. Shutt.
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SoundPublisher number: UC134 | Recorded BooksSeries: Modern scholarPublication details: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2009.Description: 7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (80 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)ISBN: - 9781436178174 :
- 1436178177 :
- 938.9 22
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| CD 937 Tob The grandeur that was Rome | CD 938 Fox Alexander of Macedonia | CD 938 Tob The glory that was Greece | CD 938.9 Shu A history of ancient Sparta | CD 939 Tob From Troy to Constantinople | CD 940 Rui The terror of history. | CD 940 Rui The terror of history. |
Professor Timothy B. Shutt, Kenyon College, lecturer.
Compact disc.
Course guide includes bibliographical references.
Explores the history and culture of ancient Sparta, a society renowned for military excellence and adherence to the values of courage, discipline,duty, and the overcoming of fear.
Aura and overview: "Come and take them." -- Geography and origins -- Institutions: What made the Spartans so different? -- Government and religion -- Spartan art and culture -- Women in Sparta -- The early days: Before the Persian wars -- The Ionian revolt to Marathon, 490 BCE -- Their finest hour: Artemisium and Thermopylae, 490-480 BCE -- The triumph of the Greeks : Salamis and Plataea, 480-479 BCE -- Earthquake, revolt, stormclouds gathering: The Peloponnesian War to the peace of Nicias -- Sparta triumphant: From the peace of Nicias to Aegospotami -- Triumph and nemesis: From the destruction of the Long Walls at Athens to Leuctra and beyond.
Audio; Recorded Books.