The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta Quotes

“For the Persian army as a whole, then, there was no alternative to the route that passed through the Hot Gates.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“When Darius and his fellow conspirators assassinated Bardiya”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“the barbarians from being “deprived of fame.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“the great and wondrous deeds” of the Hellenes and”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“He wrote first and foremost, as he himself put it, to prevent “events” from becoming “evanescent”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“Longinus described him as “the most Homeric” of all writers.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“His approach was in certain respects akin to that of an epic poet.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“Herodotus is our main source of information.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

“Tyrtaeus was the supreme poet of civil courage.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge