Sparta's First Attic War Quotes

“and the grand strategy gradually worked out by the Spartans in response was all-encompassing.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“The Thebans came to realize that their situation was dire and that resistance was futile.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“When it was rejected, they began ravaging the territory of the Thebans,”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“Thebans only that they surrender those from among their compatriots who were most closely associated with the Mede.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“He, unsuspected by the enemy, undermines them by a plan.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“The resting time of the grand strategist is during war, for it is during peace that he works and labours.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“The former is, he explained, “more particularly concerned with the movement of armed masses”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“Fuller drew a sharp distinction between strategy and grand strategy.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“War is the continuation of policy by other means.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“One must always acknowledge the primacy of domestic policy.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“The empire ruled by Darius and his son Xerxes commanded a greater proportion of the world’s population”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“In absolute terms, Achaemenid Persia cannot now be judged the greatest power in human history.”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

“This was especially true after Plataea because the Hellenic victory had implications that were simply staggering”
― Paul Anthony Rahe, Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.