Sparta Av Matyszak Philip

Charts the decline of Spartan power from the Peloponnesian War (arguing that victory in this war actually contained the seeds of their downfall) down to the Roman conquest of Greece and Sparta's absorption into the Achaean League in 146 BC.

Dramatic narrative combining big personalities (Cicero, Cato, Marius, Sulla and Pompey), political intrigue, assassination and full-scale warfare.

In The Greeks, Philip Matyszak illuminates the Greek soldiers, statesmen, scientists and philosophers who, though they seldom - if ever - set foot on the Greek mainland, nevertheless laid the foundations of what we call 'Greek culture' today.