Sparta's Third Attic War Quotes

“There was one brute fact that had to be faced. The Persians might very well come back.”
― Paul Rahe, Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC

“the Persians acquired a great fleet.”
― Paul Rahe, Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC

“after securing the submission of the Phoenician cities along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean,”
― Paul Rahe, Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC

“Thus it happens that years beforehand detached observers are able to predict a coming clash of societies which are following convergent”
― Paul Rahe, Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC

“the ancient Greeks employed nouns feminine in gender, personifying the community as a woman to whom they were devoted—”
― Paul Rahe, Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC

“and avoided risky ventures in pursuit of ulterior objects.”
― Paul Rahe, Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC