| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 445 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Holy Leuktra -- pt. 2. Between peace and war -- pt. 3. March down country -- pt. 4. Freedom. |
| Summary |
The history of the Theban general Epaminondas and the liberation of 100,000 Messenian helots (slaves) in 369 B.C.E. is often overlooked. Athens and Sparta were the great powers of their day?Athens for its center of learning and democracy and Sparta for its military prowess. Thebes, on the other hand, was an agrarian state, the breadbasket of Greece, and as such was disdained by its southern neighbors. Making his fiction debut, historian Hanson, praised for his in-depth analyses of the early history of the Greek city-states in The Father of Us All and A War Like No Other, tells the story of Epaminondas and the fall of Sparta at the Battle of Leuktra through the eyes of Mêlon, a farmer-turned-soldier. |
| Subject |
Epaminondas, approximately 420 B.C.- -- Fiction.
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Generals -- Greece -- Thebes (Extinct city) -- Fiction.
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Thebes (Greece) -- History -- Fiction.
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Sparta (Greece) -- History -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781608191642 hardback |
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1608191648 hardback |
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