BostonPL_Athens and Sparta: 14 eBooks on the Archetypal Ancient Greek States

Athens and Sparta sometimes seem more like symbols than actual city-states, held up as exemplars of the tensions between freedom and order, and between civility and power. Athens is drawn as cultured, intellectual, and elegant, while rustic Sparta appears as either a masculinist fantasy world or a proto-fascist terror state. The truth, naturally, is much more complicated, so try one of these eBooks to learn more about these famed polities and the epochal conflict between them.