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Pausanias of Sparta: From Victor to Traitor

by Daniel Ogden
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780300284768
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press
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  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 359 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Military

The story of Pausanias, the general who defeated the Persians invading Greece and changed the course of history

Weaving together ancient sources, Daniel Ogden tells the gripping story of the enigmatic and controversial Spartan regent to an underage king. Pausanias (ca. 505-ca. 467 BCE) would never have come to power had the Persians not annihilated the Greek forces at Thermopylae in 480 BCE, killing his uncle Leonidas. The next year, Greek forces under the new regent's command crushed the Persians at the decisive Battle of Plataea. It was a brilliant victory for Pausanias, but his heroic reputation swiftly declined. He was accused of tyrannical ambition, treachery, rape, and murder and came to a grisly and ghostly end, starved to death in Sparta's Temple of Athena.

In this meticulously researched book--the first full-length biography of Pausanias in English--Ogden searches for the truth behind the ancient stories. Was Pausanias merely misunderstood and misrepresented, or was he an egotist in thrall to his own success? Despite Pausanias's dark demise, Ogden hails his greatest achievement: by defeating the Persians he ensured the future of Classical Greek culture and the development of Western civilization as we know it.

Daniel Ogden is professor of ancient history at the University of Exeter. His recent books include The Dragon in the West and The Werewolf in the Ancient World. He lives in Exeter, UK.

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