The Road to Sparta

2017-04-20
 |  Sports & Recreation
The Road to Sparta

Author: Dean Karnazes

Publisher: Atlantic Books

ISBN: 9781952535727

Category: Sports & Recreation

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In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He was hailed as a hero and his run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in history. Dean Karnazes honours this achievement and his own Greek heritage by attempting this ancient journey in modern times. His account of running the gruelling Spartathlon, fuelled only by the figs, olives and meats available to Pheidippides, will captivate even the most sedentary readers.

The Road to Sparta

2016-10-26
 |  Sports & Recreation
The Road to Sparta

Author: Dean Karnazes

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

ISBN: 9781952534904

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 304

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In The Road to Sparta famed ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes explores the story of the world's first marathon, all while reliving the historic 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta in one of the most difficult ultra races in the world - the Spartathlon. In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. Pheidippides was hailed a hero, as he saved the development of Western civilization. The run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in history. Karnazes honours Pheidippides and his Greek heritage by completing the treacherous course without the aid of modern endurance nutrition and only eating and drinking what would have been available in 490 BCE. Through vivid description and telling insights, The Road to Sparta offers readers a rare glimpse into the mind-set and motivation of an extreme athlete during his most difficult and personal challenge to date.

Peloponnesiaca

2010-09-16
 |  Social Science
Peloponnesiaca

Author: William Martin Leake

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108020107

Category: Social Science

Page: 474

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A detailed description of historical artefacts, sites and geography mentioned in Leake's work Travels in the Morea.

Pericles Of Athens And The Birth Of Democracy

1991
 |  History
Pericles Of Athens And The Birth Of Democracy

Author: Donald Kagan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9780684863955

Category: History

Page: 326

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"Kagan, faithful to his lifelong fascination with Pericles . . . gives us an accessible and invaluable account of his life and deeds".--Allan Bloom, author of "The Closing of the American Mind".

Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History

2018-12-19
 |  Social Science
Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History

Author: James George Frazer

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

ISBN: 9783748141464

Category: Social Science

Page: 233

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It may be reckoned a peculiar piece of good fortune that among the wreckage of classical literature the Description of Greece by Pausanias should have come down to us entire. In this work we possess a plain, unvarnished account by an eye-witness of the state of Greece in the second century of our era. Of no other part of the ancient world has a description at once so minute and so trustworthy survived, and if we had been free to single out one country in one age of which we should wish a record to be preserved, our choice might well have fallen on Greece in the age of the Antonines. No other people has exerted so deep and abiding an influence on the course of modern civilisation as the Greeks, and never could all the monuments of their chequered but glorious history have been studied so fully as in the second century of our era. The great age of the nation, indeed, had long been over, but in the sunshine of peace and imperial favour Greek art and literature had blossomed again. New temples had sprung up; new images had been carved; new theatres and baths and aqueducts ministered to the amusement and luxury of the people. Among the new writers whose works the world will not willingly let die, it is enough to mention the great names of Plutarch and Lucian.

The Spartan Supremacy, 412–371 BC

2014-07-30
 |  History
The Spartan Supremacy, 412–371 BC

Author: Bob Bennett

Publisher: Pen and Sword

ISBN: 9781473838543

Category: History

Page: 299

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Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history, in the late fourth and early third century BC, did the home of these grim warriors seem set to entrench itself as the dominant power in the Greek world. This period includes the latter stages of the Peloponnesian War from 412 BC to the Spartan victory in 402, and then down to the Spartan defeat by the Thebans at Leuctra in 371 BC, where it all began to unravel for the Spartan Empirern Surprisingly few previous books have covered the tumultuous first decades of the fourth century BC, particularly when compared to the ample coverage of the Peloponnesian War. As the authors explain, although the earlier period has the benefit of Thucydides' magisterial history, the period covered here is actually well served by sources and well worthy of study. There are many interesting characters here, including Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, Pelopidas and Epaminondas, to name but a few. In addition there are several campaigns and battles that are reported in enough detail to make them interesting and comprehensible to the reader. Bob Bennett and Mike Roberts untangle the complexities of this important but unduly neglected period for the modern reader.

Elroy Sparta Trail Guidebook

2001
 |  Travel
Elroy Sparta Trail Guidebook

Author: Bob Sobie

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 9780595189779

Category: Travel

Page: 110

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The Elroy Sparta Trail Guidebook is the definitive source for the information needed to enjoy yourself on this beautiful bicycle trail. Where to dine, where to stay, what to do, even which direction to bike is included in this book that was written by one of the foremost enthusiast of the Elroy Sparta Trail. This book also includes the connecting trails: 400 State Trail, Omaha Trail, La Crosse River State Trail, and the Great River State Trail.