The End of Sparta (57 page)

Copyright © 2011 by Victor Davis Hanson

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Hanson, Victor Davis.
The end of Sparta : a novel / Victor Davis Hanson. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
1. Epaminondas, b. ca. 420 B.C.—Fiction. 2. Generals—Greece—Thebes—Fiction.
3. Thebes (Greece)—History—Fiction. 4. Sparta (Greece)—History—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.A7233E63 2011
813‘.6—dc22    2011013805

First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2011
Electronic edition published in 2011

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-368-4

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Preface

Map

Holy Leuktra

Mêlon Comes to Leuktra

Lichas the Spartan

General Epaminondas

Helikon

Spartans

The Breaking Point

The Circle Closes

The Battle Above

The King of Sparta

The Wages of Battle

Ripples of Leuktra

Between Peace and War

The Lizard’s Tail

The Fall of Mêlon

The House of the Goddess

Nêto Unbound

The Healing of Mêlon

On the Road to Thebes

The Great Debate

No Man a Slave

The New Mantineia

Two Women

The March Down Country

The Great Muster

Chiôn Goes South

A Free Messenia

The Night of the Three Armies

The Plains Afire

The Visions of Proxenos

Lord Kuniskos of the Helots

Erinna of Messenia

Freedom

The Shadows of Mt. Taygetos

All Roads to Messenia

The End of the Beginning

The Reckoning

The Old Breed

The Way Back

The Restoration

Epaminondas Returns

The Anabasis

A Historical Postscript

The Peoples and Places of Fourth-Century B.C. Greece

Principal Characters

Timeline

Footnote

A Note on the Author

By the Same Author

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