02159cam a2200349 4500 944724995 TxAuBib 20230823120000.0 110413s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011013805 9781608191642 hbk. 1608191648 hbk. 9781608193547 1608193543 (OCoLC)701806408 TxAuBib Hanson, Victor Davis. The End Of Sparta : a novel / Victor Davis Hanson. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011. xiii, 445 p. : maps ; 25 cm. Pt. 1. Holy Leuktra -- pt. 2. Between peace and war -- pt. 3. The march down country -- pt. 4. Freedom. In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans crushed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for two centuries. We follow these epic historical events through the eyes of Mn, a farmer who has left his fields to serve with Epaminondas-swept up, against his better judgment, in the fever to spread democracy even as he yearns to return to his pastoral hillside. With a scholar's depth of knowledge and a novelist's vivid imagination, Hanson re-creates the ancient world down to its intimate details-from the weight of a spear in a soldier's hand to the peculiar camaraderie of a slave and master who go into battle side by side. 20230823. Epaminondas, approximately 420 B.C.- Fiction. Generals Greece Thebes Fiction. Thebes (Greece) History Fiction. Sparta (Greece) History Fiction. Historical fiction. fast https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011013805-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1110/2011013805-d.html Publisher description