“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her citizens from all others in Greece, still had not changed. At that time there was a… — Ernle Bradford Copy Share Image
“The small Greek city-states could not understand what the organisation of a great empire and the movement of many thousands of men entailed: they… — Ernle Bradford Copy Share Image
“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her… — Ernle Bradford Copy Share Image
“Against three million men fought in this place Four thousand Peloponnesians, face to face.” — Ernle Bradford Copy Share Image
“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves… — Ernle Bradford Copy Share Image
