Table of Contents
Maps and Plans vii
Prologue: Holocaust at the Hot Gates xxx
Introduction: The Setting and the People xl
Chapter 1 Land of Orderliness 1
Chapter 2 Love and War Among the Spartans 15
Chapter 3 Of Matters Spiritual 31
Chapter 4 Tyrants, Tremble 38
Chapter 5 The Power of the Dorian Spear 48
Chapter 6 Top Dog 61
Chapter 7 Train Hard, Fight Easy 75
Chapter 8 Hellas' Veins Opened 85
Chapter 9 Organized to Kill 104
Chapter 10 Klearchos' Red Army 117
Chapter 11 Dressed to Kill 137
Chapter 12 Follow the Leader 148
Chapter 13 Bare Essentials 165
Chapter 14 Fall of Giants 172
Chapter 15 Masters of the Red Field 183
Chapter 16 Sackers of Cities 225
Epilogue: Between History and Legend 225
Appendix 1 The Size of Greek States 232
Appendix 2 The Median Host at Thermopylai 235
Appendix 3 The Literary Evidence for the Spartan Army 238
Appendix 4 A Note on Athenian Democracy 240
Appendix 5 A Note on the Athenian Army 247
Appendix 6 A Note on Iphikrates and his Peltasts 252
Appendix 7 A Note on the Ten Thousand 254
Appendix 8 Herodotos and the Topography of Plataia 259
Appendix 9 A Note on the Diekplous and the Periplous 262
Glossary of Greek Terms 264
Notes 266
Bibliography 330
Index 337
